Carnegie Hall, New York City

Carnegie Hall is a historic concert venue in Midtown Manhattan located at 881 Seventh Avenue, between 56th and 57th streets. It opened in 1891 and became one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. It was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1962.

The Carnegie Hall has 3,671 seats, divided among three auditoriums: the Stern Auditorium, a five-story auditorium with 2,804 seats; the Zankel Hall, with 599 seats and the intimate Joan and Sanford I. Weill Recital Hall, with 268 seats. Besides the auditoriums, Carnegie Hall also contains the Rose Museum, the Weill Café, a shop and offices in the top stories.

The structure was designed in a modified Italian Renaissance style by architects William Burnet Tuthill (1855-1929), Richard Morris Hunt and Adler & Sullivan. It is composed of three structures arranged in an "L" shape, each structure contains one of the hall's performance spaces. The Hall was built by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Its construction began in 1889 and the Hall opened on May 5, 1891, as a venue shared by the Oratorio Society of New York and the New York Symphony Society. The New York Philharmonic was relocated to the Lincoln Center in 1962.

The Hall was owned by the Carnegie family until 1925, after that Robert E. Simon and then his son, Robert E. Simon Jr., became owner.