The Frick Museum
designed by Carrère & Hastings

 Designed by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914, the building was changed after Mrs. Frick’s death in 1931, with alterations and additions made by the architect John Russell Pope.  In 1935 the Collection opened to the public.  A new Reception Hall, built in 1977, was designed by John Barrington Bayley, Harry van Dyke, and G. Frederick Poehler, as well as two temporary exhibition galleries.

The Gallery addition at far left along 71st Street,  was added in 1977.  John Bayley and his fellow architects made the addition totally consistent with the original mansion, which ran counter to the general architectural trend of the time.  ===>>

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27 October 2002
 by BridgetFoy 

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taken 14 January 2004
 by Richard Foy==>>

This photo taken from Central Park in October 2002 despite street construction shows how the Frick house and other residences of the gilded age are now dwarfed by tall apartment buildings — the result of skyrocketing real estate values along Fifth Avenue ===>>

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 27 October 2002
by Bridget Foy

<<===  A view of the Frick museum taken from the southwest corner of 70th street along Central Park.  The museum entrance is at the right, along 70th Street.

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taken 14 January 2004
by Richard Foy

The west facade of the main building of the Frick Museum shows the inscription which must have been added when the house opened as a museum in 1935 ===>>

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14 January 2004
by Richard Foy