The Frick House

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The Henry Clay Frick House was the New York City residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick. The mansion is located at 1 East 70th Street and Fifth Avenue.

It houses the Frick Collection today.

The house was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1912-1914.

It was built on the site of the Lenox Library, today part of the New York Public Library, a monumental neo-Greek building designed by Richard Morris Hunt.

The house is set apart from Fifth Avenue by a garden that is enclosed by an iron rail fence. The main entrance is from 70th Street.

[edit] Further reading

• Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3.
• Bailey, Colin B. (2006). Building the Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House and its Collections. New York: Frick Collection, in association with Scala Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 1-85759-381-2.
• Ossman, Laurie; Ewing, Heather (2011). Carrère and Hastings, The Masterworks. Rizzoli USA. ISBN-13: 9780847835645