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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. COOHEW_190827_09.JPG: Andrew Carnegie Mansion has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark
2. COOHEW_190827_27.JPG: Life of a Mansion The Story of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
3. COOHEW_190827_32.JPG: 1846 On August 10, the United States Congress passed legislation to found the Smithsonian Institution as an establishment dedicated to the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." President James K. Polk signs it into law that same day. 1853 Construction begins on the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (known as Cooper Union) on September 17. Founded by industrialist and inventor Peter Cooper, the school still stands at 7 E 7th Street, New York City. 1859 Cooper Union opens as "a free institution of the working classes of New York and its vicinity, in science and art." 1897 Peter Cooper's granddaughters, sisters Sarah (1859–1930) and Eleanor (1864–1924) Hewitt, establish the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. The museum opens as "a practical working laboratory," a visual library for use by students, designers, and the general public. 1898 At his wife Louise's urging, industrial magnate Andrew Carnegie purchases land for his new family home "far north" of where his peers are living, allowing him to build a large private garden that is one of the only such spaces in Manhattan. 1901 The Carnegie Mansion garden is designed by Guy Lowell, a Boston architect and landscape architect, and Richard Schermerhorn Jr., a Brooklyn native trained in civil engineering.
4. COOHEW_190827_35.JPG: 1902 The Carnegie Mansion, designed by Babb, Cook & Willard, is completed. Andrew, Louise, and their five-year-old daughter, Margaret, arrive at 2 E 91st Street for the first time on December 12. Two townhouses were built just as the Carnegie Mansion was being completed -- Nos. 9 and 11 E 90th Street. 1919 In April, Margaret is married in the mansion. On August 22, while Andrew and Louise are away for the summer in Massachusetts, Andrew dies of pneumonia. 1920 Louise purchases the townhouse adjacent to the mansion and it becomes home to Margaret, her husband Roswell Miller, and their growing family. 1933 Calvin Hathaway is hired as assistant curator at the Cooper Union Museum, and professionalizes the museum's practices implementing an object numbering system and thematic exhibitions as well as incorporating modern design into the museum's collection. 1946 Louise dies on June 24, with her daughter by her bedside, leaving the mansion to the Carnegie Corporation. 1949 The Carnegie Corporation leases the mansion and 9 E 90th Street (now known as the Miller House) to the New York School of Social Work (renamed the Columbia University School of Social Work in 1963). 1963 Cooper Union announces its intention to disband the museum. The committee to save the Cooper Union Museum is formed, and its 260 members rally to keep the Cooper Union collection together and in New York City.
5. COOHEW_190827_39.JPG: 1966 The Carnegie Mansion is named a national historic landmark. 1967 The American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) endorses the Smithsonian's decision to acquire the Cooper Union Museum as part of the national collections. 1969 The Carnegie Corporation offers the mansion and the Miller house as a new home for the museum, now known as the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution. Lisa Taylor is appointed director of the museum and serves until 1987. 1976 After being renovated by Hardy Holzman & Pfeiffer Associates, the Carnegie Mansion opens on October 7 as Cooper-Hewitt, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, with the exhibition MAN transFORMs. 1982 Cooper-Hewitt and Parsons School of Design start a master's degree program in the History of Decorative Arts. Classes held at Cooper-Hewitt are taught by curators and scholars, utilizing the museum collection and that National Design Library as teaching tools. 1988 Dianne Pilgrim is appointed director of the museum and serves until 2000. Polshek & Partners Architects make the museum building and the multilevel terrace garden fully wheelchair accessible. The museum's name changes to Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
6. COOHEW_190827_43.JPG: 1989 Cooper-Hewitt acquires the house next door to the Miller House -- 11 E 90th Street (the Fox House). 1998 Polshek & Partners are hired for a renovation project that includes a redesign of the Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings & Prints and the Luce Study Room for American Art on the mansions' fourth floor, the joining of the Miller and Fox townhouses, and the creation of the Agnes Bourne Bridge Gallery, linking the mansion with the townhouses. Rendering of the Agnes Bourne Bridge Gallery, ca. 199?. 2000 The National Design Triennial exhibition series is created to regularly present key developments in American design. The National Design Awards (NDA) are inaugurated as an initiative of the White House Millennium Council to promote design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world. 2001 Paul Thompson is appointed director of the museum and serves until 2009. 2006 Plan to increase Cooper-Hewitt's exhibition space begin, along with the largest capital campaign in the museum's history. Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners and Gluckman Mayner Architects are engaged to plan the renovation. National Design Week launches, making great design accessible to the public. 2010 Bill Moggridge is appointed director of the museum and serves until his death in 2012. The museum selects architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro (2005 NDA Winner) and interactive designers Local Projects (2013 NDA Winner) to help create the new Cooper-Hewitt.
7. COOHEW_190827_48.JPG: 2011 The mansion is closed to the public and renovation begins. The National Design Library moves from the mansion to the Miller and Fox townhouses. A collection storage, conservation, and research facility is created off campus. Design in the classroom launches, introducing design thinking to New York City K–12 students. 2012 The Cooper-Hewitt Design Center in Harlem opens to serve as a satellite education space during the renovation project. The museum selects graphic design firm Pentagram to rethink the visual identity of the new Cooper-Hewitt. 2013 Caroline Baumann is appointed director of the museum. Cooper Hewitt launches national Design in the Classroom program. Walter Hood Design Studio (2009 NDA Winner) is hired to redesign garden. 2014 Fifteenth anniversary of the National Design Awards. The museum's name changes to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The renovated museum opens to the public on December 12 with a new way to experience design. 2015 Reopening of Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden. Mansion renovation achieves LEED Silver certification. 2016 Museum welcomes record number of visitors. Digitization of over 200,000 collection objects completed. New York Landmarks Conservancy honors Cooper Hewitt with Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award.
Wikipedia Description: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
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The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution, is the United States' national museum of design history and contemporary design and the only museum in the U.S. whose collection is solely focused on design. The museum is located in the former Andrew Carnegie Mansion at Fifth Avenue and East 91st Street, part of Manhattan's famed Museum Mile. In addition to its permanent collection and regular exhibits, the museum presents the annual National Design Awards in more than ten categories, "celebrating the best in American design." The Museum also offers a Master of Arts program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design in cooperation with Parsons School of Design.

History:

The collection of decorative arts and drawings founded in 1897 by Amy, Eleanor, and Sarah Hewitt, the granddaughters of industrialist Peter Cooper, and daughters of Abram S. Hewitt, Mayor of New York in 1887–88, the Museum was initially part of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Building:

The main museum building is the Andrew Carnegie Mansion, completed in 1903, a National Historic Landmark. Andrew Carnegie, the American steel magnate and philanthropist, lived there until his death in 1919, and the neighborhood in which the museum is located became known as Carnegie Hill. The Carnegie Corporation gave the house and property to the Smithsonian in 1972, and the modern incarnation of the Museum opened there as a Smithsonian Institution in 1976.

In 1995, the building was renovated to improve the study center and handicapped access following a re-branding and re-naming the previous year.The interior was redesigned by the architectural firm, Polshek and Partners, headed by James Polshek in 2001.

Collection:

The Museum contains more than 250,000 objects ranging from Shang Dynasty bronzes to the present; it is organized into four curatorial departments: Applied Arts and Industrial Design, Drawings and Prints, Textiles, and Wallcoverings. The museum also contains a research library containing 60,000 volumes. Among its holdings the Cooper Hewitt possesses a Michelangelo drawing for a seven-branched candelabrum. It was identified in the Museum's drawings collection by Sir Timothy Clifford, director of the National Galleries of Scotland, while on a sabbatical at the museum in April 2002.
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