New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (building)
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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| Location | 8-12 West 8th Street Manhattan, New York City |
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| Built | 1838 (original buildings) 1931 (remodeled into gallery and residence) 1936 (remodeled into museum) |
| Architect | Auguste L. Noel of Noel & Miller (1931 and 1936) |
| Architectural style | Neoclassical |
| NRHP Reference # | 92001877 |
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| Added to NRHP | April 27, 1992 |
| Designated NHL | April 27, 1992 |
Coordinates: 40°43′59″N 73°59′54″W / 40.73295°N 73.998306°W
The Whitney Museum of American Art original building is a collection of three 1838 rowhouses located at 8-12 West 8th Street between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. In 1907, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney established the Whitney Studio Gallery at 8 West 8th Street adjacent to her own MacDougal Alley studio. This, and the later Whitney Studio Club at 147 West 4th Street, were intended to provide young artists with places to meet and exhibit their works.
In 1918, American artist and friend Robert Winthrop Chanler was commissioned to redesign the interior of the 8th street property, adding an allegorical bas-relief ceiling, a 20-foot-high plaster and bronze fireplace, elaborate stained glass windows and decorative screens.
In 1929, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected Whitney's offer of the gift of nearly 500 new artworks that she had collected, Whitney established the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1931 she had architect Auguste L. Noel of the firm of Noel & Miller convert the three row houses at 8-12 West 8th Street into a gallery and residence for herself, and then, in 1936, into the museum's first home.
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