The Detroit times., 1913-01-13
TRICKS new
HOME TO COST
HIM $6,OOO,OOO
Only Three Stories High, But
Will Cover a Full Fifth
ave. Block
FINEST HOME 70 HAVE
$4,000 SUNKEN POOL
Art Gallery in One Corner Will
House the Treasures Acquir-
ed by the Steel Magnatc

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Henry
Clay Frick has approved the archi-
tects plans for what will be the
finest residence I'm New York city.
IL will occupy the entire block on
Fifth-ave., from SEVENTEEN to Sew
enty-first-st., the site of the Lenox
Library, and the cost will be $1,000
600 for the building alone The
plot on which II will stand was ac-
CURED for $2.400,000. and with the
furnishings, not accounting for art
treasurers. the total cost will be
above 100000.
Contractors are already preparing
bids for construction, and the old IL
brary building Is nearly dismantled
and carried away
The style OF the Frick mansion
will be the Italian Renaissance. II
will be a low structure. three stories
and attic. above the street level.
which. with the art gallery section
will extend over the whole width Of
the block
Along the Fifth-ave. frontage at
the building line there will be a
stone garden wall capped with n
carved balustrade with a wing az
Seventy-first-st. extending along that
street
The house itself will set about
feet-from tho avenue. whtfe Mt
the north end will be the gallery
section, extending TO the street line
on Fifth-ave. The gallery. which
will ultimately contain the Frick art
treasures, said 10 be one OF the larg-
est and most valuable collections in
private hands, will be approximately
one and a half stories In height and
cover an area OF 100 feet In Length
and 81 feet In width
At the Fifth-ave. end of the gal
lery there will be n private office.
entered from a vestibule. which will
form an entrance from Fifth-ave
From this vestibule there will con-
tinue colonnade along the south
side OF the gallery wing leading 10
the library in the house proper An
other private room will be at the
rear end OF the gallery. The prin-
cipal entrance will be on the Fifth
ave. side.
a large living hall. 30x41 feet. with
the library, 43x26 feet. and the
drawing room, 32x26 feet, ut either
side. The living hall will extend
through the house. and open upon
an inner garden. at the rear OF the
dwelling On either side OF the llv
ing hall there will be a spacious cor
ridor connecting the library and
drawing rooms, to the south OF
which is to be the dining room at
the southwest corner OF the build
ing. overlooking large fountain and
sunken garden. Adjacent to this
will be the grand staircase opening
on the rear garden. On the Sew
entieth-st side Of the dwelling the
carriage entrance is provided
In the large space on Fifth-ave.
enclosed on the avenue by the stone
balustrade, the art gallery, and the
house, is a sunken garden. the cen
trail feature OF which will be pool
GO feet in length and some / . feet
in width. AT the southeriy end of
this pool will be large fountain.
This garden will afford a fine set
ting for the house. which, being set
back rs feet. will afford greater
privacy. although its beautiful lines
will not be 'obscured by the stone
balustrade nor the statuary and
other garden accessories.
An evidence that Mr.. Frick in
tends to carry out a plan he has
been credited with cherishing, Ito
build the finest house In the city"
is given In the use OF valuable land
for a pool. without considering the
cost Of construction. the pool will
represent an outlay Of approximately
$4,000. This is the value of the
land, for the whole plot, 200. 10x125,
was bought for $2,400,000, or a
trifle more than $3.50 a square foot.
Using the same basis for calculation.
the land TO be covered by the art
gallery will cost $332,500. Follow
ing the original purchase. Mr.. Frick.
subsequently bought from the
library trustees an additional 5o-foot
strip running through the block,