06/24/2026
After the Miller Family sold their home at 1048 Fifth Avenue, the building changed hands to Grace Vanderbilt, and later the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, before ultimately becoming the home of Neue Galerie New York.
Professor Andrew S. Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University School of Architecture, brings you inside Neue Galerie New York’s historic building, one of the few surviving Gilded Age mansions on Fifth Avenue. Dolkart is the author of “1048 Fifth Avenue: From Mansion to Museum,” which recounts the colorful history of the building. In the process, he illuminates the social changes of New York over the course of a century.
Neue Galerie New York is closed for Summer 2026. To ensure the ongoing vitality of our institution, we are undertaking enhancements to our historic building to promote sustainability and improve the visitor experience on every level.
See full video series at
neuegalerie.org/building
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Cover image: The dining room of 1048 Fifth Avenue was later converted into a reading room for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Today, this room is Café Sabarsky at Neue Galerie New York.
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