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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Pianist Menahem Pressler founded the Beaux Arts Trio fifty years ago with a Beethoven concert. Pressler and the trio's current violinist and cellist -- Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses, and British ...

It’s time again to thank Messrs. ­Carnegie, Frick, Warburg, Vanderbilt, Morgan & Co. The plutocrats of the last Gilded Age left us unfathomable architectural treasures that we cherish and fight over ...

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 ...

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 ...