Tenth Street Studio Building
The Tenth Street Studio Building, constructed in New York City in 1857, was the first modern facility designed solely to serve the needs of artists. It became the center of the New York art world for the remainder of the 19th century.
Tenth Street Studio Building at 51 West 10th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in New York City, photographed in 1870
Tenth Street Studio Building photographed in 1938
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