William Starr Miller House

The William Starr Miller House is a mansion located on 1048 Fifth Avenue and 86th Street, in the Upper East Side of New York City.

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History

It was originally constructed for the industrialist William Starr Miller. Miller hired the renowned New York-based, Beaux-Arts architectural firm Carrere & Hastings to design a six-story Georgian-style townhouse for himself and his family, to be located in Manhattan at 1048 Fifth Avenue (on the southeast corner of East 86th Street) on Central Park East. The work was undertaken in 1914.[1]

After Miller's death the townhouse was occupied by Grace Wilson Vanderbilt (1870–1953), wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873–1942), and then by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Purchased in 1994 by art dealer and museum exhibition organizer Serge Sabarsky ( 1912–1996 ) and cosmetics billionaire Ronald Lauder (born 1944), the building was fully renovated by German architect Annabelle Selldorf and restored to its original state. It is now home to the Neue Galerie New York, which opened on November 16, 2001.

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External links

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_Starr_Miller_House William Starr Miller House] at Wikimedia Commons

References

  1. ^ Carter B. Horsley. "1049 Fifth Avenue". New York City: The City Review. Archived from the original on July 12, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5rAmCDYB4. Retrieved July 12, 2010.