Beaux-Arts Architecture

Posted on August 17, 2010 By jestroff (Edit) 1 Comment
From Left to Right: Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ely Jacques Khan as the Squibb Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building, Arthur J.Arwine as a low pressure heating boiler, A. Stewart as the Fuller Building and Joseph Freelander as the Museum of the City of New York.

We talked a little about Beaux-Arts architecture last week in our post about New York City. Beaux-Arts architecture refers to the neoclassical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The style heavily influenced the architecture in the United States during the 1880s-1920s. Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Follen McKim were... [Read more...]