Felix M. Warburg House
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| Location | 1109 5th Avenue, New York, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°47′7″N 73°57′26″W / 40.78528°N 73.95722°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1906 |
| Architect | Gilbert, C.P.H. |
| Architectural style | Châteauesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001207[1] |
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| Added to NRHP | October 29, 1982 |
| Designated NYCL | November 24, 1981 |
The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion located on 1109 Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in the Upper East Side in New York City. Today the Jewish Museum of New York is housed there.
History
The six-story mansion, built in 1908 to designs by the architect C. P. H. Gilbert, was constructed for the philanthropist Felix M. Warburg (d.1937). The style is a revival of early French Renaissance architecture from the period Francois I.
Warburg purchased from Perry Belmont a lot that measured 100 feet along Fifth Avenue, but required Gilbert to cover only half of it with his house, permitting a side lawn fifty feet across on the avenue. When it was completed, Warburg's father-in-law Jacob Schiff feared that it was ostentatious and would incite envy and anti-semitism.[2] The Warburgs specified that they were pleased with Harry Sinclair's house and would like something similar, with details likewise drawn from the Late Gothic Hôtel de Cluny, Paris.
His widow Frieda Schiff Warburg had tried to donate the house to a cultural institute but failed and finally sold the mansion in 1941 to developer Henry Kaufman and the architect Emery Roth, who intended to redevelop the site into an eighteen-story apartment building. After the developers' plans fell through, the mansion reverted to Mrs. Warburg.[3]
In January 1944, she donated the family mansion as a permanent home for the Jewish Museum, which opened to the public in May 1947.[4] The building was expanded in 1963 and again in 1993 with a discrete mid-block addition by Kevin Roche that blends seamlessly with Gilbert's original French Renaissance design.[5]
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Wayne Craven, Gilded Mansions: grand architecture and high society, 2008, p. 315.
- ^ Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fisman. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism between the Second World War and Bicentennial (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995), p.1110
- ^ Warburg, Edward M.M.; Zane, Sharon (February 11, 1991). "The Museum of Modern Art History Project: Edward M.M. Warburg" (PDF). Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
- ^ The upper East Side Book: The Jewish Museum
Further reading
- Kathrens, Michael C. (2005). Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-926494-34-3.
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External links
Media related to Felix M. Warburg House at Wikimedia Commons
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