William Starr Miller House: An Architectural Analysis

Abstract

The William Starr Miller House is a refined and sophisticated beaux-arts residence turned into the Museum Neue Gallery (Figure 1). It is found on the prominent 5th Ave in New York City, known as Museum row, as the street houses many renowned museums. Built in 1914 by the architecture firm Carrere and Hastings for Industrialist and venture capitalist William Starr Miller. Miller had stakes in Chase National Bank and The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company. The house was built in the Louis XIII style. After his death, it was sold to a Vanderbilt, the YIVO Jewish Center, and finally to its current owner Ronald Lauder and Serge Sabrosky, who transformed the house into an Austrian art museum called the Neue Gallery New York (Kathrens, p. 220).