Jacob Schiff's daughter Frieda's House on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in New York

Jacob Schiff’s daughter, Frieda, donated her house on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in New York City to the Jewish Theological Seminary for use as a Jewish Museum. Schiff frowned on his daughter’s extravagance in building the house, but surely would have been pleased when she donated it. The Schiff family – Jacob and Therese, and their children Frieda and Mortimer and their families – lived within a few blocks of one another on the Upper East Side.