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  1. Clayton

    Henry Clay Frick and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs, purchased Clayton in August 1882 for $25,000. At the time, the house was considerably smaller, an 11-room, Italianate-style building on a 1.43-acre parcel of land.

  2. Tours

    Experience art, history, and nature with tours at the Frick. Explore Clayton, the historic home of Henry Clay Frick, and exhibitions at The Frick Art Museum. The Art Museum is temporarily closed while in between exhibitions. It will reopen on April 6, 2024 with Vermeer, ...

  3. Home

    On April 20, immerse yourself in the artist and actual landscapes of Henry Clay Frick through tours of The Frick Pittsburgh and the Carrie Blast Furnaces. More View all events. Apr 20. An Evening with the Executive Director: Vermeer, Monet, Rembrandt. Thursday, May 2 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

  4. Clayton Tours

    On a guided tour of Clayton's first floor, explore this pivotal time in our nation's history through the experiences of the Frick family and other 19th-century Pittsburghers. Discover what it was like to live in this city at the dawn of modern America and consider how the legacy of the Gilded Age continues to affect us today. Advance ...

  5. Touring The Frick Museum and House in Pittsburgh's East End

    The Frick Pittsburgh is a Testament to the Man. Henry Clay Frick made his fortune during the steel boom in the 1800s with one-time business partner Andrew Carnegie. As Pittsburgh was the center of the steel world at the time, you can imagine that his fortune was quite large and he lived a lifestyle reflective of that wealth.

  6. Historic Home and Gardens

    Henry Clay Frick and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs, purchased Clayton in August 1882 for $25,000. At the time, the house was considerably smaller, an 11-room, Italianate-style building on a 1.43-acre parcel of land. The home, which fronted Penn Avenue in the residential neighborhood of Point Breeze, was located just a half-hour by train from ...

  7. Tickets & Tours

    The Henry Clay Signature Tour The essential guided tour. MORE TOUR INFO & TICKETS Tuesday-Saturday 10:00, 11:30, 2:30, 3:45. Traces: Slavery at Ashland Tour MORE TOUR INFO & TICKETS Tuesdays-Saturdays 1:00. ... Ashland was Henry Clay's cherished home for nearly half a century.

  8. PDF Signature Clayton Tour Experience: Gilded, Not Golden

    Frick historic home tour reimagined for the first time in over 30 years PITTSBURGH, PA, May 17, 2023 - The Frick Pittsburgh is pleased to present the Signature Clayton Tour Experience: Gilded, Not Golden, a new tour of Clayton, the Henry Clay Frick family home, which centers the lived experiences of the Frick family, their contemporaries, and

  9. Henry Clay Frick House

    The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.Designed by Thomas Hastings as the residence of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the house contains the Frick Collection museum and the Frick Art Reference Library.

  10. Tour Clayton, the Gilded Age home of the Henry Clay Frick family

    This tour introduces you to the Frick family and their home on Pittsburgh's Millionaire Row from 1882-1905. See the Dining Room, Parlor and Reception Room a...

  11. 12. Henry Clay Frick House, 1 E. 70th Street

    Henry Clay Frick House, 1 E. 70th Street. Magnolias in bloom, The Frick Collection, Fifth Avenue. ... Take a Backstage Tour of the Metropolitan Opera House. Nicole Saraniero February 29, 2024.

  12. Upstairs at Clayton

    At the top of the steps to the third floor are the White Room and the Yellow Room, guest bedrooms for visitors to Clayton. Archival evidence indicates that "Aunt Attie," Adelaide (Mrs. Henry Clay) Frick's sister Martha Howard Childs, stayed in the White Room when she lived with the family in the early 1890s. The White Room and the Yellow ...

  13. Henry Clay Frick

    Henry Clay Frick was born, from relatively modest Mennonite stock, on December 19, 1849, in West Overton, a rural community in southwestern Pennsylvania. The second child of an immigrant farmer who married the daughter of a flour merchant and whisky distiller, Frick worked as a salesman in one of Pittsburgh's most prominent stores and became the well-paid chief bookkeeper of

  14. The Top 15 Secrets of The Frick Collection in NYC

    The Top 15 Secrets of The Frick Collection in NYC. Henry Clay Frick's house, designed and built between 1912 and 1914, stands majestically on Fifth Avenue. "The Met is admired, but the Frick ...

  15. The Frick Collection Virtual Tour

    The Frick Collection was one of the first museums to offer a Virtual Tour in 1998 and due to its popularity we updated and expanded it to include all of the public spaces and gardens. ... This virtual tour was captured in 2012, before our renovation project commenced in 2021, and serves as archival reference. Photographs: Michael Bodycomb ...

  16. Visiting the Historic West Overton Village

    Since your on about Henry Clay Frick, you should give the "South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club" in South Fork, Pa a visit. It's in Cambria County just off of Rt. 219 approximately 10 miles south of Ebensburg, take the Sidman Exit. Since it was founded by Frick and the cause of the "Johnstown Flood", it may be of interest to some people.

  17. The Frick Collection

    Review: The Frick Collection. The Frick Collection. Millionaire industrialist Henry Clay Frick transformed his mansion into a boutique museum focused on Western European art. UPDATE FEBRUARY 2021 ...

  18. The Frick Pittsburgh

    This unique tour experience spotlights select rooms of the house, taking a closer look at Henry Clay Frick's art collecting and investigating the lasting legacy of Gilded Age art collections. ... Henry Clay Frick collected pastoral landscape paintings while at the same time building industries that decimated the actual landscapes around them ...

  19. Visit Museum

    The Frick Art Reference Library's reading room at Frick Madison remains open by appointment until further notice. When will The Frick Collection reopen? The Frick Collection is currently closed for renovation. We anticipate reopening our historic buildings at 1 East 70th Street in late 2024.

  20. The wonders of Moscow metro

    Tour cost: 1000 RUB per person (metro fare is not included) Request form. Your name * Your family name * E-mail * Phone number * Number of travellers: Other special request * required field . Top Moscow and Russia tours. Customized tours. Golden Ring tours. St Petersburg tours. Day trips out of Moscow. Moscow in 1 day.

  21. Moscow metro tour

    The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours' itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin's regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as "a people's palace". Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics ...

  22. Private Moscow Metro Tour: explore the underground palaces

    Moscow is home to some extravagant metro stations and this 1.5-hour private tour explores the best of them. Sometimes considered to be underground "palaces" these grandiose stations feature marble columns, beautiful designs, and fancy chandeliers. Visit a handful of stations including the UNESCO-listed Mayakovskaya designed in the Stalinist architecture. Learn about the history of the ...

  23. Moscow Metro Tour with Friendly Local Guides

    Moscow Metro private tours. 2-hour tour $87: 10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off; 3-hour tour $137: 20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. Metro pass is included in the price of both tours. Highlight of Metro Tour