NYHIST-L Archives

January 1999

NYHIST-L@LISTSERV.NYSED.GOV

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Reply To:
A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State history." <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:29:06 EST
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (16 lines)
Keith Herkalo writes (trying to ID where Henry Frick kept his car in NYC):

>  After Frick's death in 1919,  the Frick collection was first housed in
>  what was the bowling alley in the basement of the family residence; then
>  moved to a small building across the driveway from it - can we assume that
>  the "small building" was the garage?

The "small building across the driveway" was an existing rowhouse.  Plans and
photographs indicate the driveway to be only an approach to the house.  The
Frick archivist also cannot determine garage location.   Carrere & Hastings
(who designed the main house) did not file a new building or alteration permit
for any other possible structure that would have served Frick.  He must have
leased someone else's garage - unusual, after building a house of such scale.

Christopher Gray

ATOM RSS1 RSS2