The Morgan Library & Museum Garden
New York, NY | 2022 | $13M
A comprehensive multi-year restoration of J. P. Morgan’s Library includes a new garden and new lighting to invigorate the southern campus and provide visitor access to the grounds for the first time in the institution’s history. The library, designed by Charles Follen McKim , is one of the finest examples of Neoclassical architecture in the United States. The new garden, designed by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, includes a generous lawn flanked by periwinkle beds, bluestone pathways laid in patterns derived from the Library’s Renaissance-inspired floors and several antiquities from the Morgan’s collection. The new lighting programme bathes the Library façade and garden in soft “moonlight” and highlights the loggia and the antiquities in a warm glow. The design also includes the relighting of the historic lantern in the Library’s loggia.
