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 Architecture in New York City,” by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen and the exterior of Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.
FILE – The Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library’s main branch appears on Oct. 5, 2016, in New York.
FILE – People walk through the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York on July 22, 2013.
FILE – Commuters navigate through an empty Grand Central Terminal in New York on April 29, 2020. Grand Central Terminal is an example of Beaux-Arts architecture.
FILE – Pedestrians walk past the main branch of the New York Public Library in New York on July 22, 2013.
FILE – Pedestrians pass the marble memorial arch, designed by noted architect Stanford White, at Washington Square Park in New York on May 20, 2013. The park is named for George Washington who was inaugurated in New York.
This image released by HBO shows Harry Richardson, center left, and Louisa Jacobson, center right, in a scene from “The Guilded Age.” The popular HBO Max series has brought alive America’s post-Civil War renaissance and New York City’s cultural awakening in all its Beaux-Arts glory.
This image released by HBO shows Louisa Jacobson in a scene from “The Guilded Age.” The popular HBO Max series has brought alive America’s post-Civil War renaissance and New York City’s cultural awakening in all its Beaux-Arts glory.
This image released by HBO shows Cynthia Nixon, left, and Christine Baranski in a scene from “The Guilded Age.” The popular HBO Max series has brought alive America’s post-Civil War renaissance and New York City’s cultural awakening in all its Beaux-Arts glory.
This 2017 photo from the book “An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,” published by the Images Publishing Group in 2021, shows the main branch of the New York Public Library. The architectural style Beaux-Arts translates simply as “fine arts.” It was anything but simple in the hands of New York City’s wealthiest and often infamous figures of the time.
This 2017 photo from the book “An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,” published by the Images Publishing Group in 2021, shows the Pompeian Room of the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. The architectural style Beaux-Arts translates simply as “fine arts,” but it was anything but in the hands of New York City’s wealthiest and often infamous figures of the time..
This 2017 photo from the book “An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,” published by the Images Publishing Group in 2021, shows the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The architectural style Beaux-Arts translates simply as “fine arts.” It was anything but simple in the hands of New York City’s wealthiest and often infamous figures of the time.
This 2017 photo from the book “An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,” published by the Images Publishing Group in 2021, shows the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House, with green roof, towering over The Morgan Library & Museum in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. The architectural style Beaux-Arts translates simply as “fine arts,” but it was anything but in the hands of New York City’s wealthiest and often infamous figures of the time..
This photo shows the cover of the book, “An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,” by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen, published by Images Publishing. The architectural style Beaux-Arts translates simply as “fine arts” but it was anything but in the hands of New York City’s wealthiest and often infamous figures of the time.
This 2017 photo from the book “An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,” published by the Images Publishing Group in 2021, shows Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The architectural style Beaux-Arts translates simply as “fine arts,” but it was anything but in the hands of New York City’s wealthiest and often infamous figures of the time. (Jonathan Wallen via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — “What surroundings, Mrs. Russell. We could be at Tsarskoye Selo,” exclaims Nathan Lane’s snooty Ward McAllister at his first glance of her opulent Fifth Avenue mansion on “The Gilded Age.”
The social arbiter’s reference to an 18th century palace outside St. Petersburg, Russia, is lost on the new-money Bertha, but the point was made: The HBO Max series has brought alive America’s post-Civil War renaissance and New York City’s cultural awakening in all its Beaux Arts glory.
The term, which translates simply as “fine arts,” was anything but simple in the hands of the city’s wealthiest figures of the time — names like Astor, Carnegie, Frick, Morgan, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt and more. Thanks to this powerful ruling class and their architects, the period roughly spanning the 1870s to the 1930s produced some of New York’s finest structures.
Beaux Arts at its best includes buildings like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Woolworth Building, Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station, the main branch of the New York Public Library, The Frick Collection, Grant’s Tomb and select mausoleums in Woodlawn Cemetery, where some of the players rest.
The structures, or pieces of them, survived the advent of Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the modernist movement as the country radically transformed.
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