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The Frick Collection is an art museum located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, at the corner of 5th Avenue and East 70th Street. The Frick House houses the Frick Collection today. The Frick Mansion is the 30,000 square-foot house, listed for $68 million in 2010, across the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey, country's most expensive zip code. All of these entities relate to Henry Clay Frick, "the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist," who lived from 1849 to 1919.
Frick was an art patron who collected paintings and other art objects. The Frick House was built in 1913 at its present location, and was built with Frick's intention that he would eventually "leave his house and his art collection to the public." The Frick Collection opened to public in 1935, 16 years after the death of Frick himself, and presently contains over 1000 works of art, "from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century." The Frick Mansion in Alpine traces back to an estate the Frick family built in the 1930s. In 2006, real estate investor Richard Kurtz paid $58 million to acquire the 60-acre estate, and built the 30,000 square-foot mansion on the property. Immediately after completion, Kurtz put it on the market. The Frick Mansion, located on a completely gated drive, contains "12 bathrooms, 19 bedrooms, a library, a ballroom, a main kitchen, a catering kitchen, a basketball court, a movie theater and an 11-car garage," and furthermore can be controlled from anywhere with a smartphone.
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