The French Gothic mansion at 92nd and Fifth, the carved limestone and the copper roofs, the panelled rooms inside stacked with galleries, the works among the silver and the paintings.
The Jewish Museum began in 1904 with a gift of objects to the Jewish Theological Seminary. Since 1947 it has occupied the French Gothic mansion at 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue built in 1908 for Felix and Frieda Warburg, designed by C. P. H. Gilbert. Kevin Roche's expansion in 1993 extended the mansion's limestone facade, and the collection holds about 30,000 objects.
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The Gothic Revival chateau in grey limestone with pointed dormers and a slate roof, the arched entrance with tracery, the oak panelled rooms of the old house, the white modern galleries above, the Fifth Avenue trees. Mood: sunday on museum mile. 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.