Beyond the Gilded Age

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.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Harperley Hall

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Harperley Hall designed by Henry W. Wilkerson c. 1910 at 41 Central Park West and West 64th Street in New York City .  Click  HERE to s...
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

The Frances Building

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  The Frances Building designed by C.P.H. Gilbert c. 1911 at 665 5th Avenue at 53rd Street in New York City .  Financed by Edward Holbro...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Remembering Stanford White

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 Two articles from The Brickbuilder published in December 1906 on Stanford White following his murder the previous June.  The first is t...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The John R. McLean Residence

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 The John Roll McLean residence greatly enlarged and designed by John Russell Pope c. 1907 at 1500 I Street in Washington D.C.  Following...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

The William C. Whitney Residence

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The William Collins Whitney residence originally built for Robert L. Stuart by William Schickel c. 1883 with substantial alterations fo...
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Sunday, October 27, 2013

The Willard Hotel

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 The Willard Hotel designed (altered) by Henry J. Hardenbergh c. 1901 at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.  Click HERE and H...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Central Park in 1899

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Bethesda Terrace  in New York City's Central Park as seen in 1899.  The prominent park feature was already over 25 years old when the...
Monday, September 30, 2013

The University Club of Chicago

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 The University Club of Chicago designed by Holabird & Roche c. 1908 in Chicago, Illinois .  Click HERE for more and HERE to see t...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Adolph B. Spreckels Residence

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 The Adolph Bernard Spreckels residence designed by Kenneth MacDonald Jr. c. 1912 in San Francisco, California .  Spreckels was the head...
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

The C. Howard Clark Jr. Residence

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 The Clarence Howard Clark Jr.  residence designed by Charles Barton Keen between 1910-1914 in Devon, Pennsylvania .  Clark, a financier,...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Links Club

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  The Links Club  altered and seen here by Cross & Cross c. 1916 at 36 East 62nd Street in New York City .  Co-founded by Charles Bla...
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

The Carson C. Peck Memorial Hospital

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 The Carson C. Peck Memorial Hospital designed by Ludlow & Peabody c. 1918 in Brooklyn, New York City .  Click HERE for a 1919 NYTi...
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