Author: David Garrard Lowe

Publisher/Date: Whitney Library, 1998, ISBN 0823004813

Format/Condition: NEW softcover book, 128 pages

Description: Historian David Garrard Lowe here offers an architectural and cultural tour, using some 150 photographs and drawings to illuminate the period between 1880 and World War I, when New York was the de facto capital of the United States and the spirit of the Parisian Beaux-Arts designers was reproduced by some of the city’s greatest architectural firms. The grand tour includes theatres, museums, mansions, and such buildings as Carrère & Hastings’ white Dorset, Vermont, marble palace for the New York Public Library, one of the city’s premier examples of Beaux Arts beauty and panache and Daniel Burnham’s extraordinary Flatiron Building, which resembles a tall ship sailing up Fifth Avenue.