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1048 Fifth Avenue
Our Historic Home
The building housing Neue Galerie New York is located at 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, in an area known as Museum Mile. It has been designated a landmark by the New York Landmarks Commission and is generally considered to be one of the most distinguished buildings ever erected on Fifth Avenue.
Commissioned by industrialist William Starr Miller, the building was completed in 1914 by Carrère & Hastings, also architects of the New York Public Library. It was later occupied by society doyenne Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III and subsequently by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In 1994, it was purchased by Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky, and the doors to the public in 2001 as Neue Galerie New York.
Annabelle Selldorf is the architect for the renovation of the building. Her work for Neue Galerie New York has involved restoring 1048 Fifth Avenue to its original state, while adapting it to the most stringent museum standards with regard to the display and preservation of works of art.
We are pleased to partner with Bloomberg Connects to offer you a free digital guide to the Neue Galerie. The app can be enjoyed at the museum or off-site, and includes an architecture tour.
A LOOK INSIDE
Professor Andrew S. Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University School of Architecture, brings you inside our historic building. Dolkart is the author of 1048 Fifth Avenue: From Mansion to Museum.
The History of a Home
Our beloved building is one of the few surviving Gilded Age mansions on Fifth Avenue. Explore the colorful history of the building on its journey from mansion to museum over the course of a century.
Architectural Splendor
Carrère & Hastings, one of the most prestigious design firms in America, created a design for the Miller family that was modeled on the elegant Place des Vosges in Paris, a structure that dates back to the seventeenth century.