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== Architecture == {{Main|The Met Fifth Avenue}} [[File:Metropolitan Museum of Art - panoramio (4).jpg|thumb|The Great Hall of the Met Fifth Avenue]] After negotiations with the City of New York in 1871, the Met was granted the land between the East Park Drive, Fifth Avenue, and the 79th and [[85th Street]] transverse roads in [[Central Park]]. The first part of the Met to be built was a red-brick and stone "mausoleum" designed by American architect [[Calvert Vaux]] and his collaborator [[Jacob Wrey Mould]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/12/01/081201ta_talk_halford?printable=true |title=At the Museums: Four Eyes |last=Halford |first=Macy |date=December 1, 2008 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218053644/https://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/12/01/081201ta_talk_halford?printable=true |archive-date=December 18, 2008 }}</ref> The Fifth Avenue facade, Great Hall, and Grand Stairway were designed in the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] style by [[Richard Morris Hunt]] and his son, [[Richard Howland Hunt]], in the late 1890s and early 1900s.<ref>Gross, Michael, ''Rogues' Gallery, The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum'', Broadway Books, New York, 2009, p. 75.</ref> The firm of [[McKim, Mead & White]] completed the wings on the Fifth Avenue facade in 1910. The modernistic glass sides and rear of the museum are the work of [[Roche-Dinkeloo]].<ref>The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1995)</ref> The Met Fifth Avenue measures almost {{convert|1/4|mi|m|adj=on}} long and with more than {{convert|2|e6ft2|m2}} of floor space, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/metkids/2016/history-of-the-met/ |title=How Did You Build This Museum? And More #MetKids Questions! |last=Ethridge |first=Alexandria |publisher=The Met |date=December 28, 2016 |access-date=January 7, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=1138 |title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art at HumanitiesWeb |publisher=Humanitiesweb.org |date=January 13, 2012 |access-date=June 11, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601220656/http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g |archive-date=June 1, 2012 }}</ref> The museum building is an accretion of over 20 structures, most of which are not visible from the exterior. The City of New York owns the museum building and contributes utilities, heat, and some of the cost of guardianship.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vogel|first=Carol|title=The Met Offers a New Look at Americana|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/arts/design/05met.html|date=May 4, 2009|access-date=November 25, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126194402/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/arts/design/05met.html|archive-date=November 26, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Heckscher|first=Morrison H.|title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Architectural History|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|page=54|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3259465.pdf.bannered.pdf|date=Summer 1995|access-date=November 25, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002010/http://www.metmuseum.org/pubs/bulletins/1/pdf/3259465.pdf.bannered.pdf|archive-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> The [[Iris Cantor|Iris]] and [[B. Gerald Cantor]] Roof Garden is located on the roof near the southwestern corner of the museum.<ref>{{cite book| last=Nash| first=Eric Peter| title=New York's 50 Best Secret Architectural Treasures| publisher=City & Co.| year=1996| location=New York| isbn=978-1-885492-31-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last1=Baron| first1=James| first2=Anna| last2=Quindlen| title=The New York Times Book of New York: 549 Stories of the People, the Events, and the Life of the City β Past and Present| publisher=[[Black Dog Publishing]]| year=2009| location=London| isbn=978-1-57912-801-2| author2-link=Anna Quindlen}}</ref> The museum's main building was designated a city landmark by the [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] in 1967,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0410.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0410.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=June 9, 1967|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref> and its interior was separately recognized by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0972.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0972.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=November 19, 1977|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref> The Met's main building was designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1986, recognizing both its monumental architecture, and its importance as a cultural institution.<ref>{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|86003556}}|title=NHL nomination for Metropolitan Museum of Art|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=December 29, 2017}}</ref>
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