The Henry Clay Frick houses : architecture, interiors, landscapes in the golden era. / txt
Martha Frick Symington Sanger ; foreword by Wendell Garrett.
- xiv, 295 p. : ill. ; maps ; plans ; 31 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-289) and index.
Vii Foreword WENDELL GARRETT -- X Preface -- 2 INTRODUCTION Beginning: Westmoreland Count, Pennsylvania Influence on the Henry Clay Frick Houses -- 14 CHAPTER I Clayton The Residence of Mrs. Henry Clay Frick Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- 84 CHAPTER II Eagle Rock A Summer Retreat, Boston’s North Shore -- 136 CHAPTER III One East Seventieth Street The New York City Residence, The Frick Collection -- 218 CHAPTER IV The Clayton Estate The Home of Mr. and Mrs. Childs Frick Long Island, New York -- 278 EPILOGUE Endings: Westmoreland Farm The Country Home of Helen Clay Frick -- 282 Notes -- 285 Glossary -- 287 Bibliography -- 289 Archival Resources -- 290 Acknowledgments -- 292 Illustration Credits -- 293 Index --
Book interweaves the stories of the lives of Henry Clay Frick, his wife, Adelaide, and their children with the history of the houses in which they lived. Discusses the construction of One East Seventieth Street, the New York home which is today the Frick Collection, and the interior decoration of all the homes the family lived in from the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth century.
9781580931045 1580931049
Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919 --Homes and haunts. Frick family--History.
Mansions--United States. Architecture--History--United States--19th century. Interior decoration--History--United States--19th century.