Like I mentioned earlier, The Frick collection was originally a mansion for a man by the name of Henry Clay Frick. Frick was an investor and an advocate for the unions and the arts. He was most notably famous for manufacturing Petroleum coke and being the right hand man to Andrew Carnegie the first person to mass produce steel and the richest man in the world at the time.
The Architect, Sir Thomas Hastings who we’ll talk more about in the next slide went on to become a world famous architect, he was educated at Columbia and was trained at the E’cole De Beaux Arts. Some highlights to pay attention to that make the building what it is is most importantly the classical orders that make up the wall and how the artwork is displayed in domestic settings and the interior architecture and furniture.
Scott Gleason 