Felix M. Warburg House
Manhattan, United States
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Located at 1109 Fifth Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the Felix M. Warburg House is a Châteauesque mansion completed in 1908 for German-American financier Felix M. Warburg. Designed by C. P. H. Gilbert, the building showcases French Gothic details around its windows and roofline, features that remain visible on its original facade. Following Warburg's death in 1937 and failed redevelopment plans, his widow donated the mansion to the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1944. The organization opened the Jewish Museum of New York there in 1947, a use that continues today across the house's 82,000 square feet. Kevin Roche added a sympathetic stone annex in 1993, quarried from the same source as the original structure. Designated a New York City landmark in 1981 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, the mansion has earned generally positive critical regard for its original architecture.
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- Type
- mansion
- Heritage
- New York City Landmark, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Manhattan, United States
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