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Dedicated to an era long gone featuring architectural photographs of houses, hotels, apartment and office buildings, civic institutions and more...many of which are no longer standing.
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Architects...
- Albert Kahn (2)
- Albro and Lindeberg (9)
- Bruce Price (3)
- C.P.H. Gilbert (11)
- Carrere and Hastings (25)
- Cass Gilbert (5)
- Charles A. Platt (14)
- Clinton and Russell (6)
- Cross and Cross (3)
- Daniel H. Burnham (1)
- Delano and Aldrich (5)
- Ernest Flagg (10)
- F. Burrall Hoffman (7)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (2)
- Grosvenor Atterbury (2)
- Guy Lowell (4)
- Henry J. Hardenbergh (10)
- Holabird and Roche (2)
- Hoppin and Koen (5)
- Horace Trumbauer (5)
- Howells and Stokes (3)
- Hunt and Hunt (5)
- J.H. Freedlander (2)
- James Brown Lord (3)
- John Russell Pope (9)
- Little and O'Connor (1)
- Louis H. Sullivan (3)
- McKim Mead and White (42)
- Montrose W. Morris (3)
- Mott Schmidt (1)
- Other (122)
- Peabody and Stearns (2)
- Peabody Wilson and Brown (1)
- Richard Morris Hunt (5)
- Robert H. Robertson (3)
- Rutan and Russell (2)
- Starrett and Van Vleck (2)
- Thomas W. Lamb (2)
- Trowbridge and Ackerman (1)
- Trowbridge and Livingston (11)
- Walker and Gillette (4)
- Walter B. Chambers (4)
- Warren and Wetmore (14)
- William B. Tubby (1)
- York and Sawyer (7)
Cities...
- Boston (4)
- Chicago (9)
- Detroit (3)
- Miami (6)
- New York City (221)
- Newport (15)
- Washington D.C. (8)
States...
- California (3)
- Connecticut (14)
- Florida (1)
- Illinois (8)
- Maryland (3)
- Massachusetts (15)
- Michigan (3)
- Missouri (3)
- New Jersey (38)
- New York (35)
- Ohio (5)
- Pennsylvania (16)
- Rhode Island (3)
- South Carolina (1)
- Vermont (1)
- Virginia (1)
Function...
The Departed...
- Demolished (127)
5 comments:
A somewhat strange exterior that contained some of the most fantastic interior spaces. The stonework and wood ornamentation in the great hall, entrance hall and staircase are just magnificent. The solarium is also a very nice idea for an urban dwelling.
A Jacobean prodigy house, Audley without the End, plopped down on Park Avenue. Magnificent interiors. Mr. James without doubt owned two of the most splendidly odd or oddly splendid houses of the era.
In the 1960s, a few weeks after acquiring a copy of Augusta Owen Patterson's book, "American Homes of To-Day", and viewing two illustations of the interior, I traveled to New York in order to gaze at the exterior ~ the address being mentioned in one of the captions. Arriving at the site I was crestfallen to discover an apartment buildling ~ much later discovering the James house had been demolished in the 1940s. I visualized most of that material ending up as landfill somewhere, alas ! It was not everyone who could live in a detached residence in that area of town favored by the American Medici !
OGD --
I sympathize with your plight.
I once spent two days wandering around Misenum looking for the remains of Marius's villa.
Ancient ~ Your words have just led me on a half-hour's diversion of Gaius Marius and Misenum . . . if this keeps up I'll have to retire somewhere for a much-needed rest !!!
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