Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Museum · Carnegie Hill, New York
Housed in Andrew Carnegie's 1899-1902 mansion, the only U.S. museum devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design, with over 215,000 objects spanning 30 centuries. Open daily 10 a.m.-6 p.m., closed only Thanksgiving and Christmas.
History
Carnegie commissioned the Georgian-style mansion from Babb, Cook & Willard in 1899 as an engineering landmark: the first private U.S. residence with a structural steel frame, one of New York's first residential Otis elevators, and central heating. Landmarked in 1974, it opened as the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in 1976.
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2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128
Photo "Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum": Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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