John Merven Carrère

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John Merven Carrère was a prominent American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential New York firm Carrère and Hastings, which designed many notable Beaux-Arts buildings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American architect
architect
human
causeOfDeath traffic collision
coFounderOf Carrère and Hastings
countryOfBirth Empire of Brazil
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1858-11-09
dateOfDeath 1911-03-01
educatedAt Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
surface form: Columbia University School of Architecture (attended predecessor program)

École des Beaux-Arts
employer Carrère and Hastings
familyName Carrère
fieldOfWork Beaux-Arts architecture
architecture
genre Beaux-Arts architecture
givenName John
influenced early 20th-century American civic architecture
influencedBy École des Beaux-Arts tradition
languageSpoken English
French
memberOf American Institute of Architects
movement Beaux-Arts
name John Merven Carrère self-link
nationality American
notableFor co-founding the firm Carrère and Hastings
design of Beaux-Arts public buildings in the United States
planning and civic design work in New York and other U.S. cities
notableWork Bridge of Lions area planning antecedents in St. Augustine
Cleveland Public Library Main Branch
surface form: Cleveland Public Library early schemes and related civic work

Fifth Avenue Baptist Church (now Riverside Church predecessor commissions context via firm)
surface form: Fifth Avenue Baptist Church (now Riverside Church predecessor projects involvement)

Memorial Presbyterian Church, St. Augustine, Florida
surface form: Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church (St. Augustine, Florida)

Frick Building (Pittsburgh)
Henry Clay Frick House
surface form: Henry Clay Frick House (New York, now The Frick Collection)

United States Capitol Complex
surface form: House and Senate Office Buildings (Washington, D.C.)

Manhattan Bridge
surface form: Manhattan Bridge approaches and plazas

Memorial Continental Hall (Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.)
New York City Bar Association Building
New York Public Library
surface form: New York Public Library Main Branch

New York Public Library
surface form: New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
surface form: Newark Public Library (Newark, New Jersey)

Ponce de Leon Hotel
surface form: Ponce de León Hotel (St. Augustine, Florida)

Russell Senate Office Building
Standard Oil Building, New York City
surface form: Standard Oil Building (26 Broadway, New York City)
occupation architect
partner Thomas Hastings
placeOfBirth Rio de Janeiro
placeOfDeath New York City
positionHeld Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
residence New York City
workLocation Florida
New York City
Washington, D.C.

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Carrère and Hastings founder John Merven Carrère
Carrère and Hastings hasMember John Merven Carrère
Thomas Hastings partnerInBusiness John Merven Carrère
Standard Oil Building, New York City architect John Merven Carrère
Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio architect John Merven Carrère
subject surface form: Cuyahoga County Courthouse
this entity surface form: John M. Carrère
John Merven Carrère name John Merven Carrère self-link
Thomas Hastings (firm partner) collaboratedWith John Merven Carrère
subject surface form: Thomas Hastings