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Title: 102-112 East 35th Street
Description: 102-112 East 35th Street. Built in 1853-1855. Significant renovations have taken place on all of the rowhouses. Including a mansard roof added to 102 by the firm of McKim, Mead & White in 1892, sash alterations added to the windows on 106 and 108 carried out by architects Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell in 1888, and rear extensions added to Nos. 104-112.
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Local Identifier: E35thE

Title: 102-112 East 35th Street, 2008.
Description: 102-112 East 35th Street. Built in 1853-1855. Significant renovations have taken place on all of the rowhouses. Including a mansard roof added to 102 by the firm of McKim, Mead & White in 1892, sash alterations added to the windows on 106 and 108 carried out by architects Renwick, Aspinwall and Russell in 1888, and rear extensions added to Nos. 104-112.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: E35thE2008

Title: 23 Park Avenue
Description: 23 Park Avenue; 101-103 East 35th Street. Originally built in 1898 for J. Hampden and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb. Architect: Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. Acquired by the Advertising Club of New York in 1923. The group had the building remodeled by architect Fred F. French, and the club opened in 1924. During repairs following a 1946 fire, the building was expanded to include an adjacent home at 103 E. 35th St. The building is now an apartment house.
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Local Identifier: E35thB

Title: 23 Park Avenue, 1977.
Description: 23 Park Avenue; NE corner of Park Avenue and E. 35th St. Also known as: 101-103 E. 35th St. Originally built in 1898 for J. Hampden and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb. Architect: Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. Acquired by the Advertising Club of New York in 1923. The group had the building remodeled by architect Fred F. French, and the club opened in 1924. During repairs following a 1946 fire, the building was expanded to include an adjacent home at 103 E. 35th St. The building is now an apartment house.
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Local Identifier: E35thA

Title: 23 Park Avenue, June 2008.
Description: 23 Park Avenue; NE corner of Park Avenue and E. 35th St. Also known as: 101-103 E. 35th St. Building under scaffolding at time of photograph. Originally built in 1898 for J. Hampden and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb. Architect: Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. Acquired by the Advertising Club of New York in 1923. The group had the building remodeled by architect Fred F. French, and the club opened in 1924. During repairs following a 1946 fire, the building was expanded to include an adjacent home at 103 E. 35th St. The building is now an apartment house.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: E35thA2008

Title: 23 Park Avenue, November 2008.
Description: 23 Park Avenue; NE corner of Park Avenue and E. 35th St. Also known as: 101-103 E. 35th St. Originally built in 1898 for J. Hampden and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb. Architect: Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. Acquired by the Advertising Club of New York in 1923. The group had the building remodeled by architect Fred F. French, and the club opened in 1924. During repairs following a 1946 fire, the building was expanded to include an adjacent home at 103 E. 35th St. The building is now an apartment house.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: BonusQ2008

Title: Detail of 23 Park Avenue, 1977.
Description: Detail of windows on side of 23 Park Avenue. Originally built in 1898 for J. Hampden and Cornelia Van Rensselaer Robb. Architect: Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. Acquired by the Advertising Club of New York in 1923. The group had the building remodeled by architect Fred F. French, and the club opened in 1924. During repairs following a 1946 fire, the building was expanded to include an adjacent home at 103 E. 35th St. The building is now an apartment house.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: E35thC

Title: Fireplace, Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 33 East 36th Street, 2009. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. This room originally served as Belle Greene's study. Greene was the librarian in charge of J. Pierpont Morgan's library from 1905 until 1924 and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1924 until 1948.
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Local Identifier: liebermani

Title: J.P. Morgan's Library, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: J.P. Morgan's library. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The library opens off of the east side of the rotunda. This photograph shows the room's east wall, which is lined with wooden bookshelves holding volumes from Morgan's collection. The ceiling-high tiered shelving is broken by a massive Italian Renaissance fireplace. Above the fireplace hangs a 16th century Flemish tapestry depicting the Triumph of Avarice. Henry Siddons Mowbray created the murals which decorate the room's ceiling. Visible in this image are the lunettes and spandrels formed by the ceiling's groin vaults. The design of the spandrels was inspired by ornamentation Mowbray saw at the Villa Farnesina in Rome. The lunettes alternate between female muses and portraits of historical leaders.
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Local Identifier: liebermans

Title: J.P. Morgan's study, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: J.P. Morgan's study. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. Morgan's study opens off the west side of the library's rotunda. The room's original furnishings remain intact and they are supplemented with additional works of art from the Morgan collection. The red silk wall coverings copy hangings from the Chigi Palace in Rome. Architect Charles McKim purchased the antique Italian wooden ceiling in 1905 but its exact origins remain unknown. The studio of Desiderio da Settignano is traditionally credited with creating the room's marble fireplace. Hanging above the fireplace is a portrait of Pierpont Morgan by painter Frank Holl.
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Local Identifier: liebermann

Title: Knickerbocker Trust Company, Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street, 1910
Description: Knickerbocker Trust Company - succeeded the Stewart Mansion at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, 1910. Northwest corner of 5th Avenue and 34th Street. Knickerbocker Trust Building, Built: 1902-1904; Architect: Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. Although his design was never realized, White's plan for the 4 story building allowed for the addition of a 9 story office building above. The neo-classical bank had a narrow frontage on 5th Avenue notable for its heavy cornice supported by 4 massive columns.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: 5thAveO

Title: Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Librarian's office, Morgan Library, 33 East 36th Street, 2009. One of a suite of three rooms in the original Morgan Library building, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. This room originally served as Belle Greene's study. Greene was the librarian in charge of J. Pierpont Morgan's library from 1905 until 1924 and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1924 until 1948.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: liebermanh

Title: Lunette, Rotunda, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: View of the old entrance to the Morgan library, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The rotunda connected the building's three main rooms: J.P. Morgan's study, J.P. Morgan's library, and the librarian's office. Visitors now enter through a side door which connects the McKim building to the Renzo Piano atrium. The rotunda's dome rises above the composite capitals of the hall's white marble pilasters and green marble columns. The dome's murals are by Henry Siddons Mowbray who looked to Italian Renaissance prototypes when designing his decorative scheme. Pictured is the lunette on the west wall of the rotunda. Mowbray's mural depicts the muse of Lyrical Poetry flanked by poets Tasso and Petrarch.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: liebermanq

Title: Morgan Library and Annex, 29-33 East 36th Street, 2008.
Description: Morgan Library and Annex, 29-33 East 36th Street. Library built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The Annex added 1928 on the site of J.P. Morgan's former residence ; Architect: Benjamin W. Morris. McKim's original 1906 library was built in an Italian Renaissance Eclectic Style using the dry masonry technique. The 1928 Annex followed Florentine Renaissance design principles. Sculptures by Edward Clark Potter and Andrew O'Connor decorate the exterior of the McKim building.
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Local Identifier: 34-39thD2008

Title: Morgan Library and Annex, 29-33 East 36th Street.
Description: Morgan Library and Annex, 29-33 East 36th Street. Library built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The Annex added 1928 on the site of J.P. Morgan's former residence ; Architect: Benjamin W. Morris. McKim's original 1906 library (foreground) was built in an Italian Renaissance Eclectic Style using the dry masonry technique. The 1928 Annex (background) followed Florentine Renaissance design principles. Sculptures by Edward Clark Potter and Andrew O'Connor decorate the exterior of the McKim building. Caption reads: J. Pierpont Morgan Library; E. 36th St.
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Local Identifier: 34-39thD

Title: Morgan Library and J.P. Morgan home, 29-33 East 36th Street, 1920
Description: Morgan Library and J.P. Morgan home; 36th Street looking west from Park Avenue, 1920. Library built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. J.P. Morgan's home, partially visible in the background, was razed in 1928 to make way for the library Annex building.
Type: still image
Local Identifier: 34-39thE

Title: Rotunda, Morgan Library, 2009
Description: Old entrance to the Morgan library, 33 East 36th Street. Built 1903-1906 ; Architect: Charles McKim of McKim, Meade & White. The rotunda connected the building's three main rooms: J.P. Morgan's study, J.P. Morgan's library, and the librarian's office. Visitors now enter through a side door which connects the McKim building to the Renzo Piano atrium. The main entrance to the Morgan Library is on the south side of the rotunda, or entrance hall. To the east is the entrance to Morgan's personal library, to the west is the entrance to his study, and to the north, across from the main doors, is the entrance to the Librarian's office. This entrance is framed in an apse which terminates in a semi-dome. Above the white marble door frame is a lunette holding sculpture by Della Robbia. Other notable features of the rotunda include the colored-marble floor, marble pilasters with Composite capitals, and free-standing marble columns which act as lamps. The Italian Renaissance inspired decorat
Type: still image
Local Identifier: liebermanp

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