Carnegie Hall at 881 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan was designed primarily by William Burnet Tuthill, with help from Richard Morris Hunt and Adler & Sullivan, for Andrew Carnegie. The cornerstone was laid on May 13, 1890, and the official opening was May 5, 1891. The infobox lists Renaissance Revival, and the text says modified Italian Renaissance.
The brick and terracotta building has masonry bearing walls up to 4 feet (1.2 m) thick. Dankmar Adler served as acoustical consultant. Stern Auditorium seats 2,790, though its tier figures in the text total 2,804. Zankel Hall seats 599, and Weill Recital Hall 268.
Kahn and Jacobs renovated the main hall in 1947, and a major renovation reopened it on December 15, 1986. Zankel Hall was built below ground from 1998 to 2003, and the Resnick Education Wing was added in 2014. It has had no resident company since the New York Philharmonic left in 1962.
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