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Honorable Mention for Landscape Image: Tulips
Andrew Carnegie Mansion (Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution)
2 East 91st Street, New York, New York
Photographer: Jill Bloomer
Spring 1999
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Andrew Carnegie Mansion: Andrew Carnegie, steel industrialist and philanthropist, had this 64-room brick mansion built after his retirement in 1901. It was intended to be the "most modest, plainest and roomiest house in New York." From this house, Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to philanthropy, including the establishment of public libraries throughout the nation. Carnegie died in 1919 and the Carnegie corporation gave the house to the Smithsonian institution in 1972. Today it houses the National Design Museum. |
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