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Visitors enjoy the garden of the Cooper Hewitt museum, the former mansion of Andrew Carnegie
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At Fifth Avenue and 91st Street is the Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, in what was the 64-room mansion of industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Check out the museum's collection as well as Carnegie's lush and peaceful garden, one of the city's largest private gardens.
Many other mansions that once lined Fifth have been replaced by luxury apartment buildings. But down at 70th Street, Henry Clay Frick's mansion also survives as a museum. Frick, Carnegie's partner in the steel business and a fellow Republican, left one of the finest examples of the luxury in which the "Robber Barons" lived. The elegant rooms have been preserved, along with Frick's astounding collection of masterpieces, including Rembrandts, Vermeers and Titians.
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Mary Altaffer / AP
Visitors enjoy the garden of the Cooper Hewitt museum, the former mansion of Andrew Carnegie
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At Fifth Avenue and 91st Street is the Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, in what was the 64-room mansion of industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Check out the museum's collection as well as Carnegie's lush and peaceful garden, one of the city's largest private gardens.
Many other mansions that once lined Fifth have been replaced by luxury apartment buildings. But down at 70th Street, Henry Clay Frick's mansion also survives as a museum. Frick, Carnegie's partner in the steel business and a fellow Republican, left one of the finest examples of the luxury in which the "Robber Barons" lived. The elegant rooms have been preserved, along with Frick's astounding collection of masterpieces, including Rembrandts, Vermeers and Titians.
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