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Model of Worsham-Rockefeller House, 4 West Fifty-Fourth Street, New York City
Not on view
In 1877, Arabella Worsham purchased a house at 4 West Fifty-Fourth Street. As seen in this diorama, the property consisted of a four-story Italianate brownstone over a raised basement, a garden plot to one side, and a two-story carriage house. Worsham commissioned George A. Schastey & Co., one of the preeminent New York City cabinetmaking firms, to redecorate the interiors in about 1881–82. Two years later, she married the recently widowed railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington and sold the property, fully furnished, to John D. Rockefeller, who made few changes during his ownership of more than fifty years. The Brooklyn Museum commissioned this model to accompany its installation of the Moorish reception room, preserved before the house’s demolition in 1938.
