Henry Clay Frick Furnishings Files, 1913-1920.

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Henry Clay Frick Furnishings Files, 1913-1920.

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Documents the furnishing and interior decoration of Henry Clay Frick's New York residence, located at One East 70th Street. Correspondence, telegrams, handwritten notes, invoices, and lists of estimates detail the selection and purchase of furniture, lighting fixtures, draperies, rugs, wall coverings and other decorative accessories for the house. Correspondents include Henry Clay Frick, Charles Allom, E.R. Bacon, Alfred Anson, Thomas Hastings, E.T. Stotesbury and Frank Partridge. The majority of the files pertain to White, Allom & Co., the firm responsible for decorating and furnishing the first floor of the residence, as well as the Breakfast Room and Mr. Frick's Sitting Room on the second floor. E.R. Bacon and Alfred Anson correspondence concerns the purchase of a suite of Beauvais tapestry furniture from the Duke of Devonshire. Also of note is a three-page Edward F. Caldwell & Co. list of lighting fixtures, containing 31 small pencil drawings of the fixtures. This collection represents only a portion of the material related to the furnishings and interior decoration of the Frick residence; the bulk of these papers are in the One East 70th Street Papers, also located in The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.

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Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

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Frick, Henry Clay, 1849-1919

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Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a prominent industrialist and art collector, commissioned architect Thomas Hastings of the firm Carrè€re & Hastings to design and build his New York residence in 1912. Located at One East 70th Street, the three-story Beaux-Arts mansion featured a 100-foot gallery for his art collection. Charles Allom of White, Allom & Co. and Elsie de Wolfe were selected to furnish the rooms. Frick, along with his wife and daughter, took up residence in the house in November...

Edw. F. Caldwell & Co.

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Edward F. Caldwell & Co. of New York City, founded in 1894, designed and manufactured lighting fixtures and ornamental bronze and ironworks. In 1957 the company re-emerged after tax liquidation as the E.T. Caldwell Lighting Company. The president was Edward T. Caldwell. From the description of Edward F. Caldwell Lighting Company Records, 1900-1959. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122314161 From the guide to the Edward F. Caldwell Lighting Company Records, ...

Anson, Alfred.

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White, Allom & Co.

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Bacon, Edward Rathbone, 1846-1915.

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Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929

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The Library has usually had an architect on staff to coordinate construction projects and building renovations. This individual has also had custody of the architectural drawings created by the Library or by outside architectural firms. From the guide to the Architect records, ca. 1900-1980, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) ...

Allom, Charles, Sir, 1865-1947.

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