. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . THE PIERCE coi-ner Hudson and Franklin Sts. Carrere & Hastings, Architects. (1892.) BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEir YORK. 6l I. 6i2 A HISTORY OF REAL ESTATE, (1893-4), 22(1 Street and Fourth avenue. Loni;- before the latter date,however, the profession had utterly discarded the style which ithad so enthusiastically taken up. Following the l\onianes(|Ue revival, the profession returned to theRenaissance, if. indeed, we may si)eak of a return to fornjs whichhad never
. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . THE PIERCE coi-ner Hudson and Franklin Sts. Carrere & Hastings, Architects. (1892.) BUILDING AND ARCHITECTURE IN NEir YORK. 6l I. 6i2 A HISTORY OF REAL ESTATE, (1893-4), 22(1 Street and Fourth avenue. Loni;- before the latter date,however, the profession had utterly discarded the style which ithad so enthusiastically taken up. Following the l\onianes(|Ue revival, the profession returned to theRenaissance, if. indeed, we may si)eak of a return to fornjs whichhad never been (lroi)])e(l by nian\- jjractitioners. .Much of the newwork that was done was i)atterned after Italian buildings of the six-teenth centur\. The transitional details of the period of Francis theJ^irst, were also received with favor. The latter may be seen in ]:)uild-ings. such as the Home Life Building ( i8y2). the addition t(j Corne-lius \anderbilts residence (1893). the residence of John Jacol) Astor(i8<j3)—the last important design of Sir. R. H. Hunt—the FahysBuilding (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)
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