The site of the old Library is now occupied by the house of Mr. Henry C. Frick, one of the great show residences of the Avenue and the city.  Beautiful as it unquestionably is, the veriest layman is conscious of the fact that, for the full effect, a longer approach is needed.  A broad garden separates the house, which is eighteenth-century English, from the sidewalk.  The gallery, the low wing at the upper corner, with lunettes in sculpture by Sherry Fry, Phillip Martiny, Charles Keck, and Attilio Piccirilli, contains pictures by Titian, Paul Veronese, Velasquez, Murillo, Van Dyck, Franz Hals, Rembrant, Daubigny, Corot, Diaz, Manet, Millet, Rousseau, Troyon, Constable, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney, Turner, and Whistler.  The chief artistic feature of the interior decorations of the house, which, with the land upon which it is placed, cost, in round figures, five millions of dollars, is the famous series of Fragonard Panels, in the drawing-room.  Painted originally for the chere amie of Louis the Fifteenth, they are known as the Du Barry Panels, despite the fact that the fair lady did not find them quite satisfactory and the artist placed them in his own home on the shores of the Mediterranean.

But before the Frick residence is reached there are the houses of Harry
Payne Whitney (871) at the north-east corner of Sixty-eighth Street,
Mrs. Joseph Stickney (874), Henry J. Topping (875), Frances Burton
Harrison (876), Mrs. Ogden Mills (878), Mrs. E.H.  Harriman (880), and
Mrs. William E.S.  Griswold (883).  Just beyond are Mrs. Abercrombie
Burden (898), James A. Burden (900), John W. Sterling (912), Samuel
Thorne (914), Nicholas F. Palmer (922), George Henry Warren (924), Mrs.
Herbert Leslie Terrell (925), John Woodruff Simpson (926), Simeon B.
Chapin (930), Mortimer L. Schiff (932), Lamon V. Harkness (933), Alfred
M. Hoyt (934), and Edwin Gould (936).  Then, at Seventy-sixth Street, is
the Temple Beth-El, which was completed in 1891, and which represents
the first German-Jewish congregation in this country, dating back to
1826.  The dwelling houses that come next belong to Mrs. Samuel W.
Bridgham (954), and J. Horace Harding (955).  Then, at the northeast
corner of Seventy-seventh Street, is the famous house of Senator W.A. 
Clark, reputed to have been built at a cost of fifteen million dollars. 
Beyond, Charles F. Dietrich (963), Mrs. George H. Butler (964), Jacob H.
Schiff (965), William V. Lawrence (969), the James B. Duke house with
its simple lines at the Seventy-eighth Street corner, Payne Whitney
(972), Isaac D. Fletcher (977), Howard C. Brokaw (984), Irving Brokaw
(985), William J. Curtis (986), Walter Lewisohn (987), Hugh A. Murray
(988), Nicholas F. Brady (989), Frank W. Woolworth (990), D. Crawford
Clark (991), E.D.  Faulkner (992), Mrs. Hugo Reisinger (993)—­there is
an apartment house at 998 where the rents are so high that it is
popularly known as the “Millionaires Apartments”—­Mrs. Henry G.
Timmerman (1007), Angier B. Duke (1009), J. Francis A. Clark (1013),
Senator George B. Peabody Wetmore (1015), Mrs. W.M.  Kingland (1026),
and George Crawford Clark (1027).