Editing Carnegie Hall (section)

=== Other facilities ===
A boiler room was placed under the sidewalk on Seventh Avenue.<ref name="p573484756" /> A small electric generation plant for 5,300 lamps was also planned.<ref name="nyt18890719" /> At the ground level of the main hall was a lobby with gray marble [[Pilaster|pilasters]] and salmon-colored walls.<ref name="TL p. 145" /> Stores were added to the lobby in the 1940s.<ref name="NPS p. 3">{{harvnb|National Park Service|1962|ps=.|p=3}}</ref> The storefronts, as well as a restaurant at the corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, were removed in a 1980s renovation.<ref name="p424782471" /><ref name="p135117567" /> Originally, there was a 150-seat dining room on the ground level below the Chamber Music Hall. Above the dining room, but below the venue itself, were parlors, cloak rooms, and restrooms.<ref name="p573484756" />

Above the Chamber Music Hall was a large chapter-room, a meeting room, a gymnasium, and twelve short-term "lodge rooms" in the roof.<ref name="p573484756" /> The 56th Street side of Carnegie Hall was designed with rooms for the choruses, soloists, and conductors, as well as offices and lodge rooms. On the roof of the 56th Street section were janitors' apartments. Three elevators, two on the 57th Street side and one on the 56th Street side, originally served the building.<ref name="p573484756" /> The addition at the corner of 56th Street and Seventh Avenue was arranged with offices, studios, and private music rooms.<ref name="p573728011" /><ref name="nyt18921228" />

The eighth floor of the main hall, which contained studios, was installed after the complex was completed.<ref name="NPS p. 3" /> There were a total of 133<ref name="nyt-1981-01-18">{{Cite news |last=Phelps |first=Timothy M. |date=January 18, 1981 |title=Carnegie Hall and Tenants Wrangle Over Rent Rises|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/nyregion/carnegie-hall-and-tenants-wrangle-over-rent-rises.html |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref> or 150 studios, many of which doubled as living quarters.<ref name="Page p. 19">{{harvnb|Page|2011|p=19|ps=.}}</ref><ref name="n110355510" /> Over the years, personalities such as [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Isadora Duncan]], [[Martha Graham]], and [[Norman Mailer]] lived in the studios.<ref name="Page p. 19" /><ref name="n110355510">{{Cite news |last=Moritz |first=Owen |date=January 11, 1978 |title=Notes of Protest Sound in Aria of Carnegie Hall |page=184|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110355510/notes-of-protest-sound-in-aria-of/ |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref> The spaces were designed for artistic work, with very high ceilings, skylights and large windows for natural light. Documents showed that Andrew Carnegie had always considered the spaces as a source of income to support the hall and its activities.<ref name="Page p. 19" /> After 1999, the space was re-purposed for music education and corporate offices. In 2007, the Carnegie Hall Corporation announced plans to evict the 33 remaining studio residents, including celebrity portrait photographer [[Editta Sherman]] and fashion photographer [[Bill Cunningham (American photographer)|Bill Cunningham]].<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Wendy|last=Goodman|title=Great Rooms: Bohemia in Midtown|url=http://nymag.com/homedesign/greatrooms/42385/|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=December 30, 2007|access-date=November 14, 2014|archive-date=January 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125204454/http://nymag.com/homedesign/greatrooms/42385/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Jessica|last=Pressler|title=Editta Sherman, 96-Year-Old Squatter|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/10/editta_sherman_96-year-old_squ.html|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=October 20, 2008|access-date=November 14, 2014|archive-date=October 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014183126/http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/10/editta_sherman_96-year-old_squ.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The last resident, poet Elizabeth Sargent, moved out during 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Slotnik |first=Daniel E. |date=April 22, 2017 |title=Elizabeth Sargent, 96, Poet and Last Tenant Above Carnegie Hall, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/nyregion/elizabeth-sargent-dead-last-resident-of-carnegie-hall.html |access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref>

The building also contains the Carnegie Hall Archives, established in 1986, and the [[Rose Museum]], which opened in 1991. The Rose Museum is east of the first balcony of the Stern Auditorium and has dark [[makore]] and light [[anigre]] paneling with brass edges, as well as columns with brass [[Capital (architecture)|capitals]], supporting a [[coffer]]ed ceiling. The Rose Museum space is separated from two adjacent rooms by sliding panels.<ref name="Arch 1992-03">{{cite magazine|last=Stephens|first=Suzanne|date=Mar 1992|title=Architectural Ethics|url=https://usmodernist.org/AJ/A-1992-03.pdf|journal=Architecture|page=75|access-date=August 21, 2021|archive-date=August 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821000546/https://usmodernist.org/AJ/A-1992-03.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>