Museum Mile Photos

Strung along Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side opposite Central Park is a string of museums including the El Museo Del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, Jewish Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, National Academy Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Neue Galerie Lauder Museum, Frick Collection, and Asia Society Museum.

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Central Fifth Avenue facade (1895-1902) of Metropolitan Museum of Art. Architect: Richard Morris Hunt & Richard Howland Hunt. On National Register.	El Museo Del Barrio (1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th St.).	El Museo Del Barrio.	Museum of the City of New York (1928-30) (1220 Fifth Ave.). Style: Georgian Colonial. Architect: Joseph J. Freedlander.

Jewish Museum (1908) (1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd St.) (former Felix Warberg Home). Architect: C.P.H. Gilbert.	Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (1903) (2 E. 91st St. at 5th Ave.). Architect: Babb, Cook & Willard.	Cooper Hewitt Museum was home of Andrew Carnegie.	Garden entrance Cooper Hewitt Museum now home of Smithsonian's National Museum of Design.

Cooper Hewitt Museum greenhouse entrance.	Stained glass window in Cooper-Hewitt Museum.	National Academy Museum (formerly National Academy of Design) (1915) (1083 Fifth Ave.). Architect: Turner & Kilian + Ogden Codman, Jr.	Entrance to National Academy Museum, former home of Collis P. Huntington.

Stairwell of National Academy Museum founded by Samuel F.B. Morse.	Sculpture in stairwell of National Academy Museum, specializing in traveling exhibits.	Wright's inverted ziggurat for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exterior.	Neue Galerie Lauder Museum (1914) (1048 5th Ave. at 86th St.) (former Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt house). Architect: Carrère & Hastings.

Entrance to Neue Galerie Lauder Museum for Austrian Art emphasizing Gustav Klimt.	Upper balcony windows of Neue Galerie Lauder Museum.	Frick Collection (former Henry Clay Frick home) (1914) (1 East 70th St. at 5th Ave.). Architect: Carrère & Hastings.	Outdoor gallery & fence of Frick Collection building.

Cast iron fence of Frick Collection building.	Facade details of Frick Collection.	Main entrance Frick Collection art museum.	Sculpted figures over entrance Frick Collection art museum.

Garden of Frick Collection art museum.	Asia Society Museum (1981) (725 Park Ave. at East 70th St.). Architect: Edwards Larrabee Barnes Assoc.	Asian-style carving on Asia Society Museum based on Oriental collection of John D. Rockefeller III.