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Carrère & Hastings’ architectural dressing for the library has seemed to all these people, and even to the harshest critics today, to be an appropriate and enduring sign of the institution’s signal importance to the intellectual and cultural life of a world metropolis.
No city in the country has a greater concentration of Beaux-Arts-style buildings than New York, primarily due to the fact that many of the architects based in the city at the turn of the twentieth century, including Carrère and Hastings, had gone to Paris in order to gain a cosmopolitan education at the École.
Learn about the architectural partnership of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, who designed landmarks like the New York Public Library and the Standard Oil Building. See 10 examples of their work, from hotels and libraries to country estates and bridges.
Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, was one of the outstanding American Beaux-Arts architecture firms. Located in New York City, the firm practiced from 1885 until 1929, although Carrère died in an automobile accident in 1911.
Oct 10, 2011 · Unlike its late 19 th – and early 20 th-century counterpart, McKim Mead and White, the architecture firm of Carrere and Hastings is hardly a well-known name. But just mention the firm’s projects, and you’ll see eyes light up.
The Carrère & Hastings Digital Collection includes over 200 architectural drawings from the 1880s-1920s for the Ponce de Leon Hotel (now Flagler College), the Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, and select others by Carrère & Hastings. The original drawings are housed in the Architecture Archives at the University of Florida.
Flagler selected Thomas Hastings and John Carrère to be the architects for his proposed hotel. Thomas Hastings was the son of Flagler's New York Presbyterian pastor. These young men had studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and absorbed the principles of French Renaissance architecture.
