Richard Morris Hunt was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of architecture of the United States. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 entrance façade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, and many Fifth Avenue mansions since destroyed.
Richard Morris Hunt
The William K. Vanderbilt House or the Petit Chateau in 1886, 660 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Portrait of Richard Morris Hunt by John Singer Sargent (1895).
Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, Fifth Avenue, New York City
The Met Fifth Avenue is the primary museum building for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The building is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Entrance facade
Original building designed by Vaux and Mould, built to support expansions
The building as constructed in 1888-94
Street view of the Met