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The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Thomas Hastings as the residence of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the house contains ...
- 1 East 70th Street
- 3
- 1912
- Beaux-Arts
The home of the Henry Clay Frick family from 1882–1905, this meticulously preserved 23-room mansion reveals the lifestyle of a prominent, wealthy family who lived in Pittsburgh at the height of the city’s cultural and economic importance.
A triumph of restoration. The home of the Henry Clay Frick family from 1882–1905, this meticulously restored 22-room mansion features an impressive array of fine and decorative art objects purchased by the Fricks.
Signature. Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
- Adelaide Childs Frick (1859–1931)
- Otterbein University (did not graduate)
In 1905, Henry Clay Frick moved his family from Pittsburgh to New York, leasing the Vanderbilt mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue. He kept his Pittsburgh residence, along with a country estate in...
The historic Frick mansion was commissioned by Henry Clay Frick in 1913 from the architecture firm Carrère and Hastings. Frick always envisioned the building would become a public resource dedicated to “encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects,” as he wrote in his will.
Fifth Avenue Garden, taken from the window of the Living Hall. The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. West Gallery. The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. Second Floor Hallway. The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. Helen Clay Frick's Sitting Room. The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. Carriage entrance on 70th Street.
