. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . ding (1894).. etc. At the same time, largely through the influ-ence of McKim. Mead & White, the use of strictly Roman detailsbecame popular. The Bowery Savings Bank (i8i;3) is a good ex-ample of this work. From 1893, nioreover, may be dated the im-portation of the Academic Beaux-Arts manner, which is now thelatest mode in architecture. Carrere & Hastings, it is true, designedthe Pierce Building on Hudson street as early as 1890, and the Mailand Express Building in 1891. but these build
. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . ding (1894).. etc. At the same time, largely through the influ-ence of McKim. Mead & White, the use of strictly Roman detailsbecame popular. The Bowery Savings Bank (i8i;3) is a good ex-ample of this work. From 1893, nioreover, may be dated the im-portation of the Academic Beaux-Arts manner, which is now thelatest mode in architecture. Carrere & Hastings, it is true, designedthe Pierce Building on Hudson street as early as 1890, and the Mailand Express Building in 1891. but these buildings were ratherFrench than Academic. The Life Building (1893). ^^ ScribnerBuilding of the same year, the Herter residence (finished 181)4), tlt-Yovmg residence (1895), the Hotel Renaissance (18^5), and the Sin-ger Building (1897). are prominent examples of a fashion which islikely to be in great favor for a year or tw o to come, but which is assure to be superseded by some other adaptation as was the Gothic,the Queen Anne, and the Romanescjue and those other departedfads of which we have
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