Neighborhood guide · 5 landmarks
Museums and landmark mansions along upper Fifth Avenue, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art north to the Museum of the City of New York.
Begin at the Met and continue north along Fifth Avenue, passing the Guggenheim, Andrew Carnegie Mansion, and Felix Warburg Mansion. The list follows the avenue so you can choose a shorter section if time is limited.
The Met opened at its present site in 1880, in a Gothic building designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. Later additions surrounded that first structure. The familiar Fifth Avenue facade and Great Hall, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, opened...
Read the building historyFrank Lloyd Wright received the commission for the Guggenheim in 1943. The museum opened on October 21, 1959, six months after his death. Its spiral form proposed a different kind of art museum, with a continuous ramp rising around a central space...
Read the building historyBuilt 1899-1903, this residential landmark at 2 East 91st Street was designed by Babb, Cook & Willard.
Read the building historyBuilt 1906-08, this residential landmark at 1109 5th Avenue was designed by C.P.H. Gilbert.
Read the building historyBuilt 1929, this museum landmark at 1227 5th Avenue was designed by Joseph H. Freedlander.
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