The Morgan Library & Museum was founded to house the private library of J.P. Morgan in 1906. It was designed by Charles McKim of McKim, Mead and White and cost $1.2 million. Morgan’s son, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., made the library a public institution in 1924. In 2006, the library underwent a major expansion project designed by architect Renzo Piano. The expansion extends above and below street level, doubling the size of the original Library. Piano set the new reading room under a translucent roof structure, to allow scholars to examine manuscripts in natural light. Piano’s four-story steel-and-glass atrium links McKim’s library building and the Morgan house in a new ensemble.
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