Felix and Frieda S. Warburg House
- Architect
- Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert
- Year
- 1909
- Style
- Chateauesque
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Felix M. Warburg House at 1109 Fifth Avenue was built from 1907 to 1908 for German-American Jewish financier Felix M. Warburg and his family. After Warburg's death in 1937, his widow sold the mansion to a developer whose plans for luxury apartments fell through, and ownership reverted to the Warburgs, who donated it in 1944 to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1947 the Seminary opened the Jewish Museum of New York in the house.
the building
Châteauesque facade. The mansion retains its original facade, marked by French Gothic details around the windows and along the roofline.
1993 annex. In 1993, architect Kevin Roche built an annex to the house in Gilbert's original style, using stone from the same quarry that supplied the mansion, replacing an extension built in 1963.
the style
The house is a rare specimen of the châteauesque style on Fifth Avenue, designed by C. P. H. Gilbert with French Gothic ornament around its windows and roofline.
More on Chateauesquethe architect
Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert designed the Warburg House in the châteauesque style.
significance
The house was named a New York City designated landmark in 1981 (LP-01116) and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Its interior, wholly occupied by the Jewish Museum, totals 82,000 square feet.
nearby
- The Jewish Museum
- Otto and Addie Kahn House
- James A. and Florence Sloane Burden House
- John Henry and Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond House
- Consulate-General of the Russian Federation in New York
- Andrew and Louise Carnegie House