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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum at the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan, New York City, along the Upper East Side's Museum Mile.It is one of 19 Smithsonian Institution museums and one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, along with the National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of ...
Cooper Square Manhattan, New York City: Built: 1858–59: ... The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, was founded in 1897 as part of Cooper Union by Sarah, ...
The Andrew Carnegie Mansion is at 2 East 91st Street [5] [6] in the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [7] It stands on 1.2 acres (0.49 ha) of land [8] between Fifth Avenue and Central Park to the west, 90th Street to the south, and 91st Street to the north. [9]
Hewitt's youngest son, Erskine Hewitt (1871–1938), was also a lawyer and philanthropist in New York City. He donated Ringwood Manor to the State of New Jersey in 1936. [13] On February 18, 1909, Erskine Hewitt was named a director of the newly formed National Reserve Bank of the City of New York. [14] On March 2, 1909, Hewitt was elected ...
Sarah Hewitt and Eleanor Hewitt, also known as the Hewitt Sisters, were American art advocates and founders of what is today the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. They are the granddaughters of Peter Cooper , an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist , and founder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of ...
41 Cooper Square is a nine-story, 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m 2) academic center at Cooper Square, Manhattan, New York City, that houses Cooper Union's Albert Nerken School of Engineering with additional spaces for the humanities, art, and architecture departments.
Only pre-Revolutionary manor house still surviving in New York City Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Museum Mile: Manhattan Design: Design, decorative arts, architecture Part of the Smithsonian, decorative arts and design Cooper Union Galleries: East Village: Manhattan Art Contemporary art
New York City Fire Museum: SoHo: Manhattan: Firefighting: Historical and modern firefighting vehicles, equipment, uniforms New York City Police Museum: Financial District: Manhattan: Law enforcement: Closed in 2014, plans unclear Harbor Defense Museum: Bay Ridge: Brooklyn Military Located in Fort Hamilton, 19th-century fort with exhibits of NY ...