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Make it stand out Black Lives Matter protesters salute medical workers on Lexington Avenue near the Upper East Side’s Lenox Hill Hospital, June 2, 2020. Photo © Anthony Behar / Sipa USA / Alamy Live News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/8bc68b74-c170-49dc-8b8b-0468a2844e04/Carl-Schurz-Park_2017_Photo_Cecile-Marion_Alamy-Stock-Photo_JYWPBX.jpg At Home in the Neighborhood - Make it stand out Carl Schurz Park, Manhattan. Promenade overlooking the East River, 2017. Photo © Cecile Marion / Alamy Stock Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/73fbac03-26cb-4da3-8762-b9719e2aa379/Aerial_MetMuseum_Photo_Jack-Freedman_cr1.jpg At Home in the Neighborhood - Make it stand out Looking east over Central Park: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1014 Fifth Avenue, and the Upper East Side. Photo © Jack London Freedman https://www.1014pastandfuture.org/exhibition daily 0.75 2022-04-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/693e2647-43d6-4c99-ab0b-acd19d67d8bd/Aerial_MetMuseum_Photo_Jack-Freedman_cr1.jpg Exhibition Intro - The Upper East Side. This part of Manhattan has been the home of 1014 since 1907 - who are the townhouse’s neighbors? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/e4c4c471-34d3-4514-abb9-0a9a92f51a33/1523_08_A_DCA_N4.jpg Exhibition Intro - The Future of 1014. Creating a space to meet, discuss and celebrate. For more just societies through international cooperation. https://www.1014pastandfuture.org/pre-1906-indigenous daily 0.75 2022-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/083f9d26-a0a8-4766-81bb-6fb08ee3ee02/NYPL_1879_Bromley_Atlas_Plate+21-DET-3.jpg Pre-1906: Indigenous and Colonial Topography - Make it stand out Detail of 1879 Bromley Atlas, Plate 21, showing the still-undeveloped block bounded by Fifth Avenue (left) and Madison Avenue, and 82nd and 83rd streets. A stream trickles through the rear of lot 72, the future 1014 Fifth Avenue. 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Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/e32594bc-617f-4387-8ed4-3926f26a3bca/NYPL_1912_Yorkville-Indigenous-geography_A.R.Ohman-Map-Co-PREVIEW.jpg Pre-1906: Indigenous and Colonial Topography - Make it stand out The Lenape settlement of “Konannde Kongh, as labeled by Dutch colonists, and a Lenape trail that shaped part of the Boston Post Road are among the features shown on this reconstructed map of “Yorkville and East Harlem in aboriginal times.” A.R. Ohman Map Co., 1912. New York Public Library Digital Collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/c4f87458-2a24-4d55-a6cb-80ae1110f100/1883_View-from-Park-Ave-and-94th-St_MCNY.jpg Pre-1906: Indigenous and Colonial Topography - Make it stand out View southwest from Park Avenue and 94th St. in 1883. The sparsely developed blocks near Central Park contrasted with the more populous, working-class and immigrant neighborhood ofin Yorktown, a few blocks to the east. © Peter Baab / Museum of the City of New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/2af29c33-30d3-49c3-8cf0-40bfb0bb15a9/Schemerhorn_nypl.digitalcollections.510d47da-2763-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.g.jpg Pre-1906: Indigenous and Colonial Topography - Make it stand out In the 19th century, John P. Schermerhorn bought the land on which 1014 Fifth Avenue would later be developed. The Schermerhorn family, who had made a fortune through shipping, established several estates on the Upper East Side, including this country villa overlooking the East River from the foot of 84th Street. 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Photo © Blackstone Studios. Museum of the City of New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/e56e6883-8f53-4a3d-a61e-dcba737b74c0/VANDER%7E1.JPG 1906–1926: Twin Mansions on a Vacant Block - Make it stand out Courtyard of the Vanderbilt-Shively “model tenement” housing development at Cherokee Place on the Upper East Side, c.1912. Wurts Bros / New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/9016d7ff-3f23-4f02-ba04-103997f3bf64/1910_N%7E1.JPG 1906–1926: Twin Mansions on a Vacant Block - Make it stand out Constructed in 1912, the Italian Renaissance-style apartment house at 998 Fifth Avenue, designed by McKim, Mead & White, heralded the shift from mansions to apartments on Upper Fifth Avenue. 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Photo © Sebastian Kaempf, Karo Architects, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/8c760d73-1741-48b9-b381-b6eae51a3514/p11.jpg 1906–1926: Twin Mansions on a Vacant Block - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/29e1533c-0b9e-4b34-90ad-992965487093/DSC01606-6th-fl.jpg 1906–1926: Twin Mansions on a Vacant Block - Make it stand out Plan of the sixth floor of 1014 Fifth Avenue. Designed as a servant’s dormitory, the top floor originally had seven single bedrooms, two double bedrooms, two bathrooms, and storage room. It was accessible via the service stair or elevator. Welch, Smith & Provot, 1906. © Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Courtesy of Chris Barker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/6c127def-a00b-4b39-b4c2-bccd5a391b80/DSC01574-mantle-1st-fl-cr.jpg 1906–1926: Twin Mansions on a Vacant Block - Make it stand out Design for marble mantel and fireplace surround, 1014 Fifth Avenue. Welch, Smith & Provot, 1906. © Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Courtesy of Chris Barker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/7c76dcb1-5a04-4670-86ee-95b1524ad38c/MetPostcardNew.PNG 1906–1926: Twin Mansions on a Vacant Block - Make it stand out Postcard illustration of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1902, with the newly completed entrance pavilion designed by Richard Morris Hunt. The limestone facade of 1014 Fifth Avenue, completed in 1907, echoed the museum’s Beaux-Arts styling on a smaller, residential scale. 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Courtesy of Chris Barker https://www.1014pastandfuture.org/ambassadors-home daily 0.75 2022-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/5d24a91a-9c8b-4591-9148-990ebc2c936a/gerardpassport2.png 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/8951d8c6-87b0-425f-bfbf-5b83d66feabd/1917-Gerards-Photo-courtesy-Daly-mansion.jpg 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out A confidant of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, James W. Gerard served as U.S. envoy for the 1937 coronation of King George VI in London. © James Watson Gerard Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/61734ddd-48b4-4dec-b8fd-9693e61f68d2/1920_Daily_News_Fri__Jan_2__1920_MRS-GERARD.jpg 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out Mary and James Gerard were “extremely popular socially,” as the New York Daily News noted on Friday, Jan. 2, 1920. The Gerards entertained at 1015 Fifth Avenue, then, after moving next-door, at 1014 Fifth Avenue. Their social networks extended to Newport, Rhode Island; Palm Beach, Florida; Eastern Long Island; Montana; Cuba; and Europe. Courtesy of Newspapers.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/cf82a24a-8463-49f2-8c42-5721f149c0cd/gerardDinnerParty.png 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out James W. Gerard (right) seated with an unidentified guest at a dinner party at 1014 Fifth Avenue during the 1930s or early ‘40s. © James Watson Gerard Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/ef8ecc9e-718b-4211-8aa9-fbaf2cfb3a3a/2018-Pokornoy-Assoc_int-arch-report_Stair-1.jpg 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out The first two flights of the grand stair at 1014 Fifth Avenue were redesigned by architects Trowbridge & Livingston as part of a Rococo-inspired renovation after Mary & James Gerard bought the townhouse in 1926. Photo © Jan Hird Pokorny Associates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/6023b54e-204b-4285-afb4-e2b1ddb73e29/renovation3gerard.png 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out Upon moving into 1014 Fifth Avenue in November 1928, James Gerard wrote to architects Trowbridge & Livingston complaining of cracked marble steps, cracked glass, and malfunctioning windows and dumbwaiter. The architects and the contractor promptly replied in separate letters, promising to fix the problems but clarifying that the alleged “cracks” were in fact natural seams or veins in the stone. © James Watson Gerard Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/57fc8409-3f95-4606-9f79-3ece5301a51a/goodhu+livingston.png 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out In consultation with architect Goodhue Livingston, Mary Gerard purchased a pair of Louis XVI-style marble mantels from the interior design and decoration firm Alavoine & Co., to be installed in the expanded first-floor dining room and new wood-paneled salon at 1014 Fifth Avenue. © James Watson Gerard Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/c96e0da5-1487-4021-a7fd-d0ff5f084967/kinggeorgecoronation.png 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out A confidant of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, James W. Gerard served as U.S. envoy for the 1937 coronation of King George VI in London. © James Watson Gerard Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/bd1df5ca-b244-40df-9610-54c11a433f36/chair1.jpg 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out Paris antiques dealer John R. Kowall wrote to Mary Gerard in 1926, enclosing photographs of an “authentic Louis XVI fauteuil” (armchair) signed by the master craftsman Jean Baptiste Claude Séné (1748-1803). It is unknown whether she purchased the chair. © James Watson Gerard Papers, Archives & Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/718aa292-9965-4964-b4a0-bd083add32d0/gerardpassport1.png 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/623e299b-e313-46f7-b619-76292c2d3a34/1956_Daily_News_Sun__Mar_11__1956.jpg 1926–1956: The Ambassador’s Home - Make it stand out “The Servants Rule the Roost,” New York Daily News, Sunday, March 11, 1956. Mary and James Gerard left an inheritance to eleven of their former domestic employees. Longtime secretary Veronica T. Hyland and butler Frank J. Hall were the largest beneficiaries in this group, followed by the chauffeur, cook, maids, and others. According to the will of Mary Gerard, former servants continued working and living in the home at full pay for several months after her death on Jan. 18, 1956. https://www.1014pastandfuture.org/goethe-house-new-york daily 0.75 2022-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/2706ed31-c053-4abb-9580-6fdeb963415b/GoetheHousePhoto.PNG 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Visitors arrive at 1014 Fifth Avenue for a screening of Berlin Alexanderplatz as part of the 1977 “Berlin Now” cultural festival, a five-week comprehensive program of exhibitions, concerts, lectures, panel discussions, screenings, and performances. Photo by Christoph Wecker, courtesy of the Goethe-Institut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/97b4d20b-13ee-4c9c-8ad1-a5363742168b/filmposter2.png 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Photo of actor Barbara Sukowa, signed by Sukowa and Günter Lamprecht, her co-star in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1980 adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz. The 15-hour miniseries aired in the U.S. in 1983, when this poster was apparently signed. Collection of Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, courtesy of Sara Stevenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/52c02e14-2274-4b13-b323-94dd91d2aa65/wenders.png 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Filmmaker Wim Wenders, a key figure in New German Cinema, visited Goethe House multiple times—typically during the annual New York Film Festival in October. Collection of Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, courtesy of Sara Stevenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/6ac8d8ad-b699-425e-9a62-e2456817c14e/641001456_Gustaf_Greundgens_1961_MCNY.jpg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/5e6671bb-61d2-4df5-9f15-dfe3b12ed60c/1978_11_New+York_Regie_WolfgangPetersen_FotoMichaelFriedel003.jpg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Wolfgang Petersen, the Academy Award-nominated director from Germany, walks past a poster advertising his 1977 film Die Konsequenz, an adaptation of a novel about gay love, at Carnegie Hall, New York. Photo by Michael Friedel, courtesy of the Goethe-Institut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/90de4ab4-0cb5-443e-a43d-17c65947c886/Beate-Spitzmuller_Baustelle-Berlin2-copy.jpg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Goethe House’s “Art in the Box” program provided a glimpse of public art on the sidewalk outside 1014 Fifth Avenue. For this 1998 installation, Berlin-based artist Beate Spitzmüller presented 32 boxes of earth from various countries. Photo © the Goethe-Institut New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/cfbc3d34-1d20-4fd8-b5fa-0ce0125ccf58/1961_goethehausnewyork_Flyer-brochure-p1-cr.jpg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out After purchasing 1014 Fifth Avenue in 1960, the Federal Republic of Germany converted the townhouse to serve as Goethe House, “a cultural link between the United States and Germany.” The former dining room housed a large library of books and periodicals, while the salon became an auditorium and screening room. Property conveyance courtesy of the German Consulate General; 1961 brochure detail courtesy of the Goethe-Institut New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/c796535a-8b43-4f28-9506-c82fd3aa8228/1961_G%7E2.JPG 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out The early Goethe House board of trustees included U.S. diplomats as well as arts patrons and intellectuals with ties to Germany. Several trustees had fled Germany to escape Nazi persecution; one was a former Nazi himself. 1961 brochure detail courtesy of the ifa Archiv Stuttgart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/3aa8ce13-53ec-4ef7-b1b9-230b1b453af9/1971_PAAA_LGS_0035_Title-1960-1-CONVEYANCE.jpeg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out The Federal Republic of Germany bought 1014 Fifth Avenue from the Gerard estate via an intermediary, Manhattan developer Manny E. Duell, in 1960. After minor renovations, the former dining room housed a large library of books and periodicals, while the salon became an auditorium and screening room. Courtesy of the German Consulate General https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/8541240a-640e-4079-a63a-1a7e490549b6/photo2-copy.jpg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out A 1998 installation on the facade of 1014 Fifth Avenue. Photo courtesy of the Goethe-Institut New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/339c1e95-a563-46dd-9183-90593ce31623/DATUMF%7E1.JPG 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Theodor Heuss, president of the Federal Republic of Germany (center) speaks with John J. McCloy, chairman and president of Goethe House (left) and James B. Conant, the first U.S. ambassador to postwar Germany, during a late-1950s visit to the original Goethe House location in a rented office suite. Courtesy of the German Consulate General / the Goethe-Institut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/c31cbe24-0c3f-4e4a-976d-d8c35521312c/Hannah-Arendt_c1963_Photo_Alamy_DDMRMB.jpg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Hannah Arendt, the philosopher who left Germany in 1933 and became known for works such as The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) and “Eichmann in Jerusalem” (1963), lectured at Goethe House in 1968 on the legacy of fellow German-Jewish intellectual Walter Benjamin. Photo 1963 © Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/d301e1bb-f99b-425e-b943-8cae7f33d2a5/1980c_09810004.JPG 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Artists Jean-Michel Basquiat (left) and Andy Warhol attend a reception at the Goethe-Institut New York in the early 1980s. Photo courtesy of the Goethe-Institut New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/a232dc4d-f99d-4cdf-ac05-0b8de62236ff/sempel.png 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Director Peter Sempel signed this poster for his film Just Visiting This Planet (1991), about a Japanese Butoh dancer, to his “film friend” Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, the longtime film coordinator at Goethe-Institut New York. Collection of Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, courtesy of Sara Stevenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/d2d908b5-cc08-4e77-9c8e-163d57f903af/19731001_New_York_Vernissage_FotoCarinMarx.jpg 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out The émigré community at Goethe House included figures such as Lotte Lenya (left), the Austrian-American singer and actress who, with her first husband, the German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill, left Germany in 1933. Goethe House director Egon Dahinten (center) worked with Henry Marx (right), a concentration camp survivor who served as director of Goethe-Institut cultural programs for North America. Photo 1973 © Carin Drechsler-Marx / the Goethe-Institut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/28981f22-dc10-4a93-ae5f-07b962dae371/herzog.png 1960–2009: Goethe House New York - Make it stand out Werner Herzog Stipetić, the director and writer better known as Werner Herzog, autographed this magazine photo for Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart in 1982. 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Photo © Arnaud Falchier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/e00e6b4b-fa3c-418c-b703-d19bcef97b45/191012_Blesener_068.jpg 2009-today: Creating a Space for Ideas - Make it stand out Architect Mario Gooden performs “Blackground” in September 2019 as part of Dialogues on a Future Communication organized by Jenny Brockmann and Niama Safia Sandy at 1014 Fifth Avenue. Photo © Sarah Blesener https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60fecdd6edf55a3de3c98c7d/b93e4cba-ec5d-4f67-81d0-8ed9e4edfa8b/191105_Performa19_HIRES_042.jpg 2009-today: Creating a Space for Ideas - Make it stand out As part of Performa 19, Maria Hassabi and Nairy Baghramian (with Janette Laverrière and Carlo Mollino) collaborated to present “Entre Deux Actes (Ménage à Quatre),” an installation and live performances inhabiting two floors at 1014 Fifth Avenue, in November 2019. 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