Hartford, Connecticut-born banker John Pierpont Morgan was looking to buy his own house by 1880. In 1888, she doubled the size of her house and added an attic to plans by architect R. Helen Phelps inherited the house following her father's death. Their son, architect Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, was born in the Isaac Newton Phelps house at 231 Madison Avenue two years later. Isaac Newton Phelps's daughter Helen married Anson Phelps Stokes in 1865. The surrounding neighborhood of Murray Hill was not yet developed at the time, but began to grow after the American Civil War. Dodge, and John Jay Phelps, while the 37th Street house was owned by George D. The Madison Avenue houses, from north to south, were owned by Isaac Newton Phelps, William E. All the houses were designed in an Italianate style with pink brownstone. Three houses were built along Madison Avenue on lots measuring 65 feet (20 m) wide by 157 feet (48 m) deep, while a fourth house to the east measured 18 feet (5.5 m) wide and stretched 197.5 feet (60.2 m) between 37th and 36th Streets. The houses were all built in 1852 or 1853 by members of the Phelps Stokes/Dodge family. In the second half of the 19th century, the Morgan Library & Museum's site was occupied by four brownstone houses on the east side of Madison Avenue, between 36th Street to the south and 37th Street to the north. The glass entrance building was added when Morgan Library & Museum was renovated in 2006. Morgan's son John Pierpont Morgan Jr., in accordance with his father's will, and the annex was constructed in 1928. The library was made a public institution in 1924 by J. The main building was constructed between 19 for $1.2 million. The Morgan Library was founded in 1906 to house Morgan's private library, which included manuscripts and printed books, as well as his collection of prints and drawings. The site was formerly occupied by residences of the Phelps family, one of which banker J. The main building and its interior is a New York City designated landmark and a National Historic Landmark, while the house at 231 Madison Avenue is a New York City landmark. The museum and library also contains a glass entrance building designed by Renzo Piano and Beyer Blinder Belle. A 19th-century Italianate brownstone house at 231 Madison Avenue, built by Isaac Newton Phelps, is also part of the grounds. The main building was designed by Charles McKim of the firm of McKim, Mead and White, with an annex designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris. The Morgan Library & Museum is composed of several structures. It is situated at 225 Madison Avenue, between 36th Street to the south and 37th Street to the north. The Morgan Library & Museum, formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library, is a museum and research library in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
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