Michele Beckerman

The Downtown Lower Manhattan Association records include rarely-viewed photographs, drawings, maps, brochures, and other papers that document the design and construction of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, built between 1966 and 1975.

Philanthropy helped architects and planners create a new kind of suburban community in the 1920s.

How an American philanthropist’s love of medieval art created an immersive Old World experience at The Cloisters museum in New York City.