A Fifth Avenue mansion, the skylit garden court with its fountain and ionic columns, the census where the old masters hang.
Henry Clay Frick built his mansion on Fifth Avenue at 70th Street in 1913 and 1914, designed by Carrere and Hastings. His will left the house and its paintings to the public. John Russell Pope turned it into a museum, and the Garden Court with its fountain was built over the old carriage court. The Frick Collection opened in 1935 and reopened in 2025 after a renovation that opened the family's upstairs rooms.
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The limestone mansion behind its lawn and iron fence on Fifth Avenue, the glass roofed garden court with paired ionic columns and a central fountain, the paneled galleries opening off it. Mood: gilded quiet. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.