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Inside a $220 Million Facelift at the “World’s Favorite Museum”

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The Frick Museum will reopen to the public April 17 , with a $220 million facelift and a new expansion by Annabelle Selldorf .

Henry Clay Frick made his fortune in the coke fields outside Pittsburgh and came to Manhattan with a net worth of billions when adjusted for inflation.

The museum is home to the industrialist's incredibly stacked collection of Old Masters.

The Frick Collection has one of the greatest collections of art ever assembled by an American .

Frick spent an outrageous amount of money on art— hundreds of millions in today’s dollars.

He began collecting as an obsession when he moved his family to New York in 1905 , first occupying a house built by William Vanderbilt , on Fifth Avenue in Midtown .

Frick kept his works not just to himself, but at his house, in their original spots rather than spread out through an encyclopedic museum, giving the tiny museum on Fifth Avenue an unforgettable essence.

The new Frick museum opens in a Gilded Age mansion built for entertaining, The Frick throws a killer party.

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