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dc.coverage.spatialSite: New York, New York, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporalfirst phase 1871-1902 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorHunt, Richard Morrisen_US
dc.creatorVaux, Calverten_US
dc.creatorMcKim, Mead, and Whiteen_US
dc.creatorRoche, Kevinen_US
dc.date1871-1902en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-18T16:59:05Z
dc.date.available2016-07-18T16:59:05Z
dc.date.issued1871-1902en_US
dc.identifier266022en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3276en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/182076
dc.descriptionInterior, Greek and Roman Court with atrium, view under the arcade; The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. The building is on the National Register and Landmark designation. In 1872 a High Victorian Gothic building was completed by Vaux and Mould; it was not well received and within 20 years a new Beaux-Arts plan engulfed the Vaux building. The Beaux-Arts Fifth Avenue facade, Great Hall, and Grand Stairway were designed by architect and Met trustee Richard Morris Hunt, but completed by his son, Richard Howland Hunt in 1902 after his father's death. The wings that completed the Fifth Avenue facade in the 1910s were designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White. The modernistic glass sides and rear of the museum are the work of Roche-Dinkeloo. Kevin Roche has been the architect for the master plan and expansion of the museum for the past 42 years. As of 2010, the Met measures almost 1⁄4-mile (400 m) long and is more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 9/6/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; steel; glassen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectMuseologyen_US
dc.subjectexhibition designen_US
dc.subjectBeaux-Artsen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.titleMetropolitan Museum of Art Buildingen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A2-US-NY-MMA-A35en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeart museumen_US
dc.contributor.displayCalvert Vaux (American architect, 1824-1895); Kevin Roche (American architect, born 1922); McKim, Mead, and White (American architectural firm, 1879-1910); Richard Morris Hunt (American architect, 1827-1895)en_US


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