#455 House of Beauty: The Story of the Frick Collection

<p>We invite you to come with us inside one of America’s most interesting art museums – an institution that is BOTH an art gallery and a historic home.</p><p>This is <a href="https://www.frick.org/">The Frick Collection</a>, located at 1 East 70th Street, within the former Fifth Avenue mansion of Gilded Age mogul <strong>Henry Clay Frick</strong>, containing many pieces that the steel titan himself purchased, as well as many other incredible works of art from master painters such as <strong>Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya, Turner, and Whistler.</strong></p><p>Frick himself had a rather complicated legacy. As a master financier and chairman of <strong>Andrew Carnegie</strong>'s massive steel enterprise, Frick helped create the materials for America's railroads and bridges. </p><p>But his intolerance of labor unions led to a bloody confrontation in the summer of 1892, making him, for a time, one of the most hated men in America.</p><p>New Yorkers' love for the Frick Collection, however, remains...