Carrère and Hastings

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Beaux-Arts architectural firm architectural firm

Carrère and Hastings was a prominent American Beaux-Arts architectural firm, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for landmark works such as the New York Public Library Main Branch.

Aliases (1)

Beaux-Arts (mansion) ×1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Beaux-Arts architectural firm → architectural firm →
activePeriodEnd	early 20th century →
activePeriodStart	late 19th century →
architecturalStyle	Beaux-Arts →
areaServed	New York metropolitan area → United States →
associatedWithMovement	City Beautiful movement →
basedIn	New York City →
commissionedBy	New York Public Library →
country	United States →
designed	Cuyahoga County Courthouse → Frick Mansion, New York City → Manhattan Bridge approaches and plazas → New York Public Library Main Branch → Newark Public Library →
field	architecture →
founder	John Merven Carrère → Thomas Hastings →
genre	civic architecture → institutional architecture → residential architecture for wealthy patrons →
hasMember	John Merven Carrère → Thomas Hastings →
heritage	part of American architectural history →
influenced	early 20th-century American civic architecture →
languageOfWork	English →
location	New York City →
notableClient	Henry Clay Frick → Standard Oil Company →
notableFor	design of monumental public buildings → use of classical Beaux-Arts composition →
notableWork	Cuyahoga County Courthouse, Cleveland, Ohio → Frick Mansion (Henry Clay Frick House, New York City) → House of the American Republic, Paris Exposition of 1900 (temporary building) → Manhattan Bridge approaches and plazas, New York City → Memorial Continental Hall (consulting work), Washington, D.C. → New York Public Library Main Branch → New York Public Library Main Reading Room (interior design) → New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building → Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey → Ponce de León Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida (additions and related work) → Senate and House Office Buildings planning work, Washington, D.C. → Standard Oil Building, New York City →
reputation	prominent American Beaux-Arts firm →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Henry Clay Frick House → Lunt-Fontanne Theatre → Stephen A. Schwarzman Building → Tower of Jewels → Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City →	architect
Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills State Park ("Beaux-Arts (mansion)") →	architecturalStyle