George Blumenthal House

The George Blumenthal House was once a limestone mansion on the corner of Park Avenue and Seventieth Street that operated as a grand, private museum for its owner. George Blumenthal was a powerful Wall Street financier and a dedicated president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art who filled his home with centuries-old European antiques. He even integrated a secret passageway into his library bookshelves that led directly to the family dining room. The mansion was so heavily laden with history that it featured an entire interior patio complex salvaged from a ruined Spanish castle.