For Bill Reno. From Hopkins to Whitemarsh: The Gilded Age - TopicsExpress



          

For Bill Reno. From Hopkins to Whitemarsh: The Gilded Age Progression. THREE. Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect trained at the Parisian Academie des Beaux Arts, began to shed experimental eclecticism and to practice an increasingly academic (i.e. correct) historicism in his buildings, leaving behind the modernism of his early work (Chateau-sur-Mer for example, in Newport). Alva Vanderbilts 660 Fifth Avenue is still an eclectic house, but it is the first chateauesque house in America with any pretension to academic understanding of European medieval and Renaissance models. It made all of the envious millionaires (and their wives) across the nation think: Hmmm, maybe I need something a little less....American.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:26:45 +0000

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