Murray Guggenheim House
- Also Known As: Guggenheim Library
- Address: Cedar and Norwood Aves
- Vicinity: Monmouth University
- University of Monmouth University campus in West Long Branch
In 1905, Murray Guggenheim, son of mining magnate Meyer Guggenheim, hired New York architects Carrere and Hastings to design a palatial residence. The partners' New York Public Library had gained them a reputation for the kind of civic monumentality Guggenheim must have desired; the Beaux Arts mansion, set amid landscaped grounds at Norwood and Cedar Avenues, resembles a pavilion from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The residential design won the architects a gold medal from the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In 1960, the Guggenheim Foundation of New York donated the house to Monmouth College, which now uses it as a library. - NPS