Georgian Revival Architecture

While walking through the Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, I always enjoy the architecture.  I was taking a photograph of this passage lined with windows and only then noticed that Kathy had stopped to look at something in one of the glass cases.  Perfect, a person in the photograph for scale!  In 1890, the land that eventually became the Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts was sold to former congressman Lloyd Bryce, who hired Ogden Codman, Jr. to build a Georgian Revival mansion on the high ground in the middle of the property, overlooking nearby Hempstead Harbor.  In 1919, the estate was sold  to Henry Clay Frick, the co-founder of U.S. Steel, for his son, Childs Frick. The architect Sir Charles Carrick Allom was commissioned to redesign the facade and much of the interior. The Fricks named their home "Clayton". Childs Frick, his wife Frances and their four children lived at Clayton for almost 50 years, until his death in 1965. The county bought the estate four years later and converted it into a museum.  In 1989, the museum became a private not-for-profit institution. It is a stunning mansion, and enjoying the mansion itself is an extra treat in addition to the exhibits there.