| William Starr Miller House | |
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.jpg) View of the house in 2019 | |
 Interactive map of William Starr Miller House | |
| General information | |
| Location | 1048 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 |
| Coordinates | 40°46′53″N73°57′37″W / 40.781306°N 73.960169°W /40.781306; -73.960169 |
| Completed | 1914 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Carrere and Hastings |
TheWilliam Starr Miller House is amansion at 1048 Fifth Avenue, on theUpper East Side ofManhattan inNew York City. Prior toMiller’s development of the property, the site was home to David Mayer (died in 1914), a founder of the David Mayer Brewing Company and a friend ofOscar S. Straus.[1]
It was originally constructed for the industrialistWilliam Starr Miller. Miller hired architectural firmCarrere and Hastings to design a six-storyLouis XIII style townhouse for himself and his family, to be located in Manhattan at 1048 Fifth Avenue (on the southeast corner with East 86th Street). The work was completed in 1914.[2]
Miller's daughterEdith Starr Miller married the widowedLord Queenborough in July 1921, in the music room. Miller died at the house in 1935 and his widow continued to live there until her death in 1944.[3]
After Mrs. Miller's death, the townhouse was occupied byGrace Vanderbilt, wife ofCornelius Vanderbilt III, and then by theYIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Purchased in 1994 by art dealer and museum exhibition organizerSerge Sabarsky and cosmetics billionaireRonald S. Lauder, the building was fully renovated by German architectAnnabelle Selldorf and restored to its original state. It contains theNeue Galerie New York, which opened on November 16, 2001.[4]
