King's Views of New York - XXI

Here is this week's installment of King's Views of New York. As always, click on the "See Large" link to see each photo in much more detail.




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Metropolitan Museum Of Art - Central Park, facing Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, inc. 1871; centre of present group, occupied 1880; additions, '89 (south wing), '94, '01 (east wing, 344 X 200 ft., Thomas Dwyer, builder) , '07 (northeast wing), '13 (north wing); designed by Richard M. Hunt to cover 18 1/2 acres and cost $20,000,000. Developed by late Henry G. Marquand and the late Gen. Louis P. diCesnola; becoming world's richest museum under presidency of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, '04-'13. 40,000 exhibets added in 8 years; $50,000,000 Morgan Collections; 839, 419 visitors in 1913; expenses $375,000. Robert DeForest, Pres. Edward Robinson, Director.


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American Museum of Natural History - Manhattan Square, W. 77th to 81st St; founded '69, opened '77; largest natural-history museum in world; collections worth $12,000,000; 600,000 visitors annually; buildings erected and running expenses paid by city; scientific expeditions conducted from the fees of 3,7000 members and income from endowment of $7,000,000 to wich Morris K. Jesup, for years its president, added $1,000,000 by bequest and his widow $5,000,000; Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President. Dr. Fredk. A. Lucas, Director.


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New York Public Library - Fifth Avenue, 40th to 42nd St.; $9,000,000 marble building; cornerstone laid Nov. 10, 1902; opened May 23, 1911; 390 X 270 ft.; two inner courts, each 80 sq. ft.; main stack room, 270 ft. long, 7 tiers; 2,133,608 volumes, room for 3,000,000; 7,300 periodicals on file. Astor Library, 1849; Lenox, '70; Tilden Trust, '87; consolidated, '95; 43 circulating branches, 8,111,175 books taken out in year by 325,000 people. 442,091 readers in libraries. Geo. L. Rives, Pres. Edwin H. Anderson, Director.


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DeWitt Clinton High School - 10th Ave, 58th to 59th St.; 138 teachers; 3,654 pupils.


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Morris High School - 166th St. and Boston Road, the Bronx; 125 teachers; 3,218 pupils.


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Wadleigh High School - 114th St., near 7th Ave., Harlem; 141 teachers; 3,045 pupils.


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High School of Commerce - 65th St., near Broadway; 100 teachers; 2,774 pupils. In the city, total 23 high schools; 2,053 instructors and 50,511 pupils; 16 night schools. Cost of schools 1914, $38,203,406. T.W. Churchill, Pres. Bd. of Education.


...to be continued.