The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture Interiors Landscapes in the Golden Era

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Henry Clay Frick the world-famous art collector and steel tycoon was a towering figure in Americas "gilded age" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The houses he built for himself and his family exemplify the great residences of the era with priceless art cultivated gardens and interiors by the most prestigious designers of the day. This elegant volume written by Fricks great-granddaughter and biographer features the four major houses purchased built and renovated for the steel magnate; each is described in exacting detail with information about the architects and interior designers furnishings and art and decoration. Beautiful archival photographsinterior and exterior many previously unseenand architectural drawings document the residences. The late-Victorian Clayton in Pittsburgh was Henry Clay Fricks first home as a married man and the chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company; it now houses the Frick Art and Historical Center. Eagle Rock the Fricks summer retreat to the north of Boston was a neoclassical all-brick colossus designed by Arthur Little and Herbert W. C. Browne. The most famous house in the book is 1 East Seventieth Street along New Yorks Fifth Avenue. Long recognized as one of the citys most elegant buildings and today housing the world-renowned Frick Collection it was designed in 1912 by Thomas Hastings of Carrre & Hastings. The fourth house in the book is the Clayton Estate a Georgian Revival masterpiece in Roslyn New York originally designed in 1901 by Odgen Codman Jr.; it is now the Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts.