If you wanted to take a day trip to Manhattan either beginning with or totally dedicated to art, it might be very easy to overlook 1 E. 70th Street from the outside as just another old mansion sitting across Fifth Avenue from Central Park; and in a way it is, having once been the home of wealthy industrialist Henry Clay Frick.

But inside, The Frick Collection houses masterpieces in number and by enough different artists to compete with any of its bigger and better-known counterparts up and down the Fifth Avenue corridor’s Museum Row.

The collection of paintings, sculptures and porcelain could actually allow patrons to make a day trip of the Frick itself, in a far more intimate setting than larger museums.

And with a cafe added during a five-year renovation that concluded this past April

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