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==Personal life== ===Family=== [[File:Margaret Carnegie Miller and Andrew Carnegie.jpg|thumb|right|Andrew Carnegie with his wife [[Louise Whitfield Carnegie]] and their daughter [[Margaret Carnegie Miller]] in 1910]] Carnegie did not want to marry during his mother's lifetime, instead choosing to take care of her in her illness towards the end of her life.{{sfnp |Edge |2004 |p=78}} After she died in 1886, the 51-year-old Carnegie married [[Louise Whitfield Carnegie|Louise Whitfield]],{{sfnp |Edge |2004 |p=78}} who was 21 years his junior.<ref>{{cite book |author=Meachen Rau, Dana |title=Andrew Carnegie: Captain of Industry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CyvHd3LxnIkC&pg=PA72 |date=2005 |publisher=Capstone |isbn=978-0-7565-1853-0 |pages=72β}}</ref> In 1897,{{sfnp |Edge |2004 |p=93}} the couple had their only child, [[Margaret Carnegie Miller|Margaret]], whom they named after Carnegie's mother.<ref>{{cite book |author=Parker, Lewis K. |title=Andrew Carnegie and the Steel Industry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82w0rAyuhUkC&pg=PA40 |date=2003 |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-8239-6896-1 |pages=40β}}</ref> ===Residences=== [[File:Cooper Hewitt (48059131921).jpg|thumb|right|The [[Andrew Carnegie Mansion]], located on 5th Avenue on the [[Upper East Side]], [[Manhattan|Manhattan, New York]]]] Carnegie bought [[Skibo Castle]] in Scotland,<ref>{{cite book |title=Skibo: The Story of the Scottish Estate of Andrew Carnegie, from Its Celtic Origins to the Present Day |last=Wall |first=Joseph Frazier |year=1984 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, NY |isbn=978-0-1950-3450-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/skibo00wall/page/70 70] |url=https://archive.org/details/skibo00wall/page/70 }}</ref> and made his home partly there and partly in his [[Andrew Carnegie Mansion|New York mansion]] located at 2 East [[91st Street (Manhattan)|91st Street]] at [[Fifth Avenue]].<ref name="EB1911"/> The building was completed in late 1902, and he lived there until his death in 1919. His wife Louise continued to live there until her death in 1946. The building has been used since 1976 as the [[Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum]], part of the [[Smithsonian Institution]]. The surrounding neighborhood on Manhattan's [[Upper East Side]] has come to be called [[Carnegie Hill]]. The mansion was designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1966.<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web |url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=387&ResourceType=Building |title=Carnegie Hall |date=September 9, 2007 |work=National Historic Landmark summary listing |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=December 23, 2015 |archive-date=November 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071106090549/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=387&ResourceType=Building |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="nrhpinv">{{cite web |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NHLS/66000536_photos |format=pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination |date=May 30, 1975 |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=March 10, 2019 |archive-date=July 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726060025/https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NHLS/66000536_photos |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="GuidetoNYCLandmarks">{{cite book |last1=Dolkart |first1=Andrew S |authorlink1=Andrew S. Dolkart |last2=Postal |first2=Matthew A. |others=Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (Author of Foreword) |title=Guide to New York City Landmarks |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetonewyorkci00dolk_0 |url-access=registration |edition=Third |series=New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee |year=2004 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=Hoboken, NJ |pages=[https://archive.org/details/guidetonewyorkci00dolk_0/page/51 51], 175|isbn=9780471369004 }}</ref>
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