Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sketch of the Proposed Annex to the Pierpont Morgan Library

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Benjamin Wistar Morris
1870-1944

Sketch of the Proposed Annex to the Pierpont Morgan Library

ca. 1927
8 3/16 x 17 3/16 inches (20.8 x 43.7 cm)
Graphite pencil and blue crayon on tracing paper.
1958.25
Notes
This proposal for Benjamin Wistar Morris's Annex to the Morgan Library shows a view along 36th Street. At left, in the distance, is an 1850s brownstone , now part of the Miorgan campus, with a garden space along Madison Avenue behind the Annex. At far right is a nineteenth century building that was later demolished and the site developed by Samuel Rudin to contain a residential tower that opened in 1950. The focus of the elevation is the relationship between the Annex and the 1906 McKim, Mead, and White Library, with a low wrought iron fence containing the two buildings.
Classification
Century Drawings