About the Guggenheim Summer Cottage
Monmouth University Library, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey

Murry Guggenheim
(1858-1939)

Leonie Guggenheim
(1866-1959)
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Architectural Firm Carrere & Hastings, New York City
Years Conceived in 1903; completed in 1905
Awards The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded their Gold Medal to Carerre & Hastings in 1903 for the design of this estate.
Architectural style Beaux Arts
Number of rooms 35 rooms, including 3 family bedrooms, 3 guest bedrooms, 7 servants' bedrooms, 7 full bathrooms and 2 powder rooms.
Total square feet approximately 15,000 square feet
Size of property 8 acres
Usage of estate "Summer home" of the Guggenheims from 1905 - 1959.  Their primary residence was on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Family members
click here for a brief genealogy		 Murry Guggenheim (1858-1939)
Leonie Bernheim Guggenheim (1866-1959)
Lucille Guggenheim (1894-1972)
Edmond Guggenheim (1888-1972)
Property conveyed to Monmouth University September 9, 1960
Guggenheim Memorial Library Dedicated September 24, 1961
State Register of Historic Places  Added in 1977
National Register of Historic Places Added in 1978

For a more detailed narrative, please visit Murry & Leonie Guggenheim Cottage - A Beaux-Arts Summer Residence
  

Some books on the Guggenheims in our collection (alphabetic by title):
 

AUTHOR       Van Benthuysen, Robert F.
TITLE        Crossroads mansions : Shadow Lawn and the Guggenheim cottage
PUBLISHED    West Long Branch, N.J. : Turtle Mill Press, 1987.
CALL #       LD 3501 M563x V3 1987.
 

AUTHOR       Davis, John H.
TITLE        The Guggenheims, 1848-1988 : an American epic
PUBLISHED    New York : Shapolsky Publishers, 1988.
CALL #       HC 102.5 G8 D38 1988.
 

AUTHOR       Hoyt, Edwin Palmer.
TITLE        The Guggenheims and the American dream
PUBLISHED    [New York] Funk & Wagnalls [1967]
CALL #       HC 102.5 G8 H6.
 

AUTHOR       O'Connor, Harvey.
TITLE        The Guggenheims; the making of an American dynasty
PUBLISHED    New York, Covici, Friede [c1937]
CALL #       TN 140 G8 O25.
 

AUTHOR       Guggenheim, Peggy
TITLE        Out of this century : confessions of an art addict
PUBLISHED    New York : Universe Books, c1979.
CALL #       N 5220 G886 A36 1979.
 

AUTHOR       Lomask, Milton.
TITLE        Seed money: the Guggenheim story.
PUBLISHED    New York, Farrar, Straus, [1964]
CALL #       HV 28 G78 L6.
  


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