Huntington House (former National Academy of Design)
3 East 89th Street | Carnegie Hill | built 1950
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- 1902
Archer Huntington buys the Fifth Avenue mansions at 1082 and 1083 and the lot behind them, now 3 East 89th Street
In May 1902 the New York Times reported that Archer M. Huntington, who founded the Hispanic Society of America in 1904, had bought the adjoining mansions at 1082 and 1083 Fifth Avenue. To keep light and air behind them, he also paid $150,000 more for the lot immediately to the rear, which is now 3 East 89th Street. He moved into 1083 and leased out the other properties.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1913
Ogden Codman builds an L-shaped wing along East 89th Street for the Huntington house
Ogden Codman Jr. remodeled Huntington's home at 1083 Fifth Avenue as a limestone-faced eighteenth-century French townhouse, and from 1913 to 1915 used the empty lot behind it for a wing for exhibiting and entertaining. The address, 3 East 89th Street, has a rusticated limestone and tan brick facade. Salon 94's later restoration reproduced Codman's front door from his original drawings, which are held at Columbia University.
Source: salon94.com
- 1923
Archer Huntington marries the sculptor Anna Hyatt, who gets a skylit studio in the wing
Archer Huntington married the sculptor Anna Hyatt in 1923. Her career had taken off in 1915, when her bronze Joan of Arc was unveiled in Riverside Park, the first public sculpture by a woman in New York City. The wing's fifth floor gained a big skylight to serve as her studio, and a five-room suite for her was fitted out one floor below.
Source: salon94.com
- 1940
Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington give their home to the National Academy of Design
On June 12, 1940, Archer Huntington announced that he was donating his home as the new headquarters of the National Academy of Design, to which his wife Anna belonged. The Academy was founded in 1825 and taught painting, sculpture and drawing for free. The Huntingtons moved to an estate in what is now Pelham Bay Park. Archer died in 1955, and Anna retained a small apartment and a studio in the building until her death in 1973.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2018
The National Academy sells its Fifth Avenue headquarters for $25 million after 78 years
Citing financial pressures, the National Academy of Design sold its six-story, 15,000-square-foot headquarters at 1083 Fifth Avenue in 2018, after 78 years. The price was $25 million. The Academy was the first institution in the United States founded and controlled by professional artists, and its mission was to promote fine art through exhibition and education.
Source: Village Preservation
- 2021
Salon 94 opens 3 East 89th Street to the public as its headquarters after a Rafael Viñoly restoration
The 17,500-square-foot building opened to the public in March 2021 as headquarters of the Salon 94 gallery, Salon 94 Design and the nonprofit S94+. Architect Rafael Viñoly oversaw the restoration, which stripped paint to reveal the Caen stone plaster walls, restored the Parquet de Versailles floors, and kept the neo-Renaissance oval staircase, now hung with a Philippe Malouin chandelier.
Source: salon94.com
Further reading
- National Academy of DesignWikipedia
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