For J.P. Morgan, perfecting this library meant having a proper showcase for his cherished collections. For his architect, it meant perhaps much more.

During J.P. Morgan’s life, he commissioned a garden to fill the space between his home and library building, but those plans were never realized. In 2022, a new public garden was opened.

In the early years of the 20th century, the Gilded Age financier J.P. Morgan built an opulent library next to his home in Midtown Manhattan to house his collection of rare books and manuscripts.

The Morgan Library & Museum, purchased by J. P. Morgan Jr., 1920. “Jane’s letters are as close as we can get to Jane the person,” he says.

Morgan Library and Museum Director Colin Bailey showed NY1 around the complex, which JP Morgan's son Jack established as a public institution in 1924. An annex was added in 1928 where Morgan's ...

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Morgan worked very closely with McKim to design the bookshelves and some extraordinary murals. In 1924, after his father's death, J.P. Morgan, Jr. opened the library as a public institution.

The New York museum mounts two exhibitions, ‘Morgan’s Bibles: Splendor in Scripture’ and ‘Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality,’ that explore its founder’s sumptuous collection of ...

Even the Morgan Library’s online history perpetuates the myth that she was a breathless ingénue, “barely twenty” when Morgan hired her, when in fact she was a confident young woman of 26.

Today, it has expanded to include a Renzo Piano-designed annex building (where drinks were served and most of the guests gathered) and the residence of Morgan's son, Jack (aka J.P. Morgan, Jr.), a ...

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