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The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave, at E 36th St., 10016 Phone: 2126850008 http://www.themorgan.orgAbout
The Morgan Library & Museum – formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library – is a museum and research library located at 225 Madison Avenue at East 36th Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded to house the private library of J. P. Morgan in 1906, which included, besides the manuscripts and printed books, some of them in rare bindings, his collection of prints and drawings. The library was designed by Charles McKim of the firm of McKim, Mead and White, and cost $1.2 million. It was made a public institution in 1924 by his son, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., in accordance with his father's will.
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