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The Henry Clay Frick House is a Beaux-Arts mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was built for industrialist Henry Clay Frick and later became the home of the Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library. Designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed from 1912 to 1914, it stands out for its recessed Fifth Avenue garden, grand limestone façade, and picture gallery integrated into the residence from the beginning. After Frick’s death in 1919 and Adelaide Frick’s in 1931, the house was adapted for public use and opened in 1935. Despite later additions and renovations, it remains a rare and admired survival of a Gilded Age private mansion.
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