The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-16
fifth AVE.
HOME COSTLY ONE
The Entire Expense Will Be
Over $4,000, 900
TO HOUSE TREASURES
Old Masters Will Hang There-Only
One Mansion in New York More
Expensive-Will Have an
Interior Garden

From the New York Sun,
Henry Clay Frick's new honie on Fifth
avenue. taking in the entire block be-
tween Seventieth and Seventy first
streets, on the site OF the old Lenox LIZ
brary, will be the second most costly In
the city, The cost of the building will
approximate 1000, The land has cost
s., 100000 to acquire, SO the entire expense
of putting up A home for Mr.. Frick Will
be well over s50Oo,Ooo,
The plans which have been made for
Mr., Frick by Carers q Hastings archi-
tects, who have designed many notable
buildings, including the New York Pub
lie Library, the National Academy of De-
sign, the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar
hGteis in st. Augustine, Fla, became pub
lie yesterday, They have been COM
pieied since early IN the fall and some
of the contracts for construction have
been given out. Plans for other work
necessary are now in the hands of con-
tractors for estimates,
Mr.. Frick is now living in the southern
one of The Vanderbilt twin houses on
Fifth avenue, from Fifty-first to fifty
second street, He has a lease on this
house which does not expire until 1916
ana is paying $4,000 year rental Work
on the new house will be started this
spring and the contracts will call for
the completion of the building within
yeas and half, so his new home Will
be turned over to Mr.. Frick some time IN
1911 before the expiration of his present
lease.
Mr.. Frick acquired most OF his site
IN 1906, when the Lenox library merged
with the Astor library and The 1ilden
formulation into the present public IL
Dsag ..f.< Ia,. \ ll.n1 ~
10, and later he bought another strip ~
ieet wide, running through the entire
plot, from the trustees of the library. So
MS plot is now 200.lox175.
Unlike the residence of Senator Clark
at Fifth avenue and Seventy-seventh
street, the only private dwelling In the
nome, having been built at an expense of
between s6,500,000 and $1,000, 600, the new
residence will not be a SNOWY affair." 1t
VIII be long and low structure and sim
pie in details. The dominating style Will
De Italian, but there viii be a hint of
French and Colonial In the structure,
neldins together to give an effect at once
siDiple, dignified and home1ilSe.
The building will be set back IS feet
Hon the street and will be only three
stories and an attic high, With the art
gallery the entire width of the block Will
be covered
A stone garden wall will face on the
Filth avenue side and will be topped
by carved balustrade. The art gallery
VIII be north OF the house. facing on
tiith avenue, The principal entrance to
Fifth avenue.
The exterior of the house will be In
tbs italian renaissance style. On enter
ing one Will be In an immense hall 30x41
ieet with large library and a drawing
room will be 32x26 feet. The living hall
IN the center will extend clear through
the house, and in the back of 1t, easy of
access from the hall, Will be an interior
garden.
The dining room will be at the SOUTH
vest corner of the building behind the
drawing rooms and will look out upon
large fountain and sunlSen gardens. A
wide corridor will connect the library and
The drawing rooms.
The grand staircase will lead from the
dining room and living hall into the gar
dens The carriage entrance will oe at
the Seventieth street side of the building.
The whole effect will be somewhat like
the three buildings, surrounding court
back or the cathedral, in which Mrs.
Wnitelaw Reid lives. B,
The art gallery will be about 100 feet
by 30 feet and win be one and one-half
stories high This building will contain
Mr. Fricks valuable collection Of art
treasures, in which are some OF the rarest
AMI most valuable pieces in the world.
The entrance will be from Fifth avenue.
4 colonnade will run from vestibule
az the entrance along the south s. e of
The gallery. which viii lead into the
library in the house.
e'ne OF the features of the sunlzen gar
den which Will be close to Fifth avenue,
shut off from the curious by the stone
garden wall will be pool 90 feet long
ana 10 feet wide. This will be in the
center of the garden, and at its south
cad will be large fountain. 1t Is figured
that at the rate which Mr.. Frcx paid for
his land the space set aside for .he pool,
without including the expense of con-
struction will be about $4,000.
Most of the windows in front of the
house VIII look out upon this garden and
the view will be perfect. The housss
being IS feet back from the Fifth avenIe
end of tae garden, will not have its view
Interrupted by the stone wall. On the
basis of average cost per foot the lard
for the library is worth s332. 600
Andrew Carnegie and Charles M.
Schwab are the only persons who have
houses in New York on larger plots than
Mr.. Frick. He has been waiting for six
years to get into his new home and did
not take title TO the land until after the
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