"Pierpont Morgan's name resonates as few others do. He was Wall Street's most powerful man. His mergers and acquisitions included the creation of the first billion-dollar corporation, U.S. Steel. He was America's greatest art collector in our golden age of collecting. And he was one of Manhattan's great patrons of architecture. Morgan either built or was involved in the building of such buildings as Madison Square Garden at 26th Street, the Metropolitan Club, Grand Central Terminal, the north and south wings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (of which he was president), the New York Yacht Club, and the University Club.

The building that bears Morgan's name is the Pierpont Morgan Library. Actually, this is a group of buildings, on 36th Street between Madison and Park Avenues and on Madison between 36th and 37th Streets. Morgan built only one. And it's worth taking a look at now."

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