A beautiful example of the Beaux Arts style, the Nabisco Mansion is almost entirely original. Meet me in St. Louis, Louis, meet me at the fair…the song about the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, ...
As in many professions, there are hierarchies of education. At the end of the 19th, and into the 20th centuries, there were several ways to become an architect. Some people skipped the school/higher ...
This combination of photos shows, from left, the Pompeian Room of the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, the cover of "An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts ...
Architectural styles are rarely invented outright. Typically, they are adaptations of previous styles reconfigured and popularized by architects, designers and social change. The Beaux Arts style is ...
Bronwyn Richards didn’t expect to move from Seattle to the Eastside in 1982. But a chance encounter with a 1912 chalet on the shores of Lake Washington won her over. Perhaps it was the influence of ...
The firm of Carrere and Hastings designed The Rotunda in the Beaux-Arts style. The view of The Rotunda from the east. The rear room of The Rotunda is often occupied by neighborhood and campus arts ...
If they had an Olympic medal for "Long-Distance Chamber Music," the gold would surely go to the Beaux Arts Trio. After a 53-year run, the ensemble — made up of one piano, one violin and one cello — ...