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    Classical City Guide: New York

    A Video Tour of New York City's Classical Architecture

    By ICAA

    November 19, 2017

    The ICAA is pleased to introduce the Classical City Guide, a new series of videos showcasing architecture in cities and regions across the United States and around the world. Join ICAA Instructor and Architectural Historian Francis Morrone for the first film, exploring classical buildings and sites across the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

    This video was made possible thanks to The Kathryn M. and Ronald J. Herman, Jr. Charitable Foundation.

    Featured destinations include a sampling of world-renowned architectural treasures, as well as lesser known classical sites in New York:

    Grand Central Terminal
    Reed & Stern and Warren & Wetmore, 1903-13

    The Glory of Commerce sculpture at Grand Central Terminal
    Jules-Félix Coutan, 1914

    The New York Public Library
    Carrère and Hastings, 1911

    Bryant Park
    Renovations by Lusby Simpson, 1934

    The Frick Collection
    Carrère and Hastings, 1914

    The Frick Collection – Garden Court
    John Russell Pope, 1935

    The Frick Collection – Reception Hall
    John Barrington Bayley, 1977

    The Frick Collection – 70th Street Garden
    Russell Page, 1977

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Southern Wing
    McKim, Mead & White, begun 1904
    Greek and Roman Galleries renovated by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, 2007

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Classical Galleries, American Wing
    Thomas Gordon Smith with Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLP, 2007

    The Apthorp
    Clinton and Russell, 1908

    St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University
    Howells & Stokes, 1907

    Carhart Mansion
    Horace Trumbauer, 1913
    Zivkovic Connolly Architects with John Simpson Architects, 2005

    Federal Hall National Memorial
    Town & Davis with John Frazee and Samuel Thomson, 1834-42

    American Surety Building, 100 Broadway Bruce Price, 1894-96

    37 Charlton Street
    1829

    Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
    James Brown Lord, 1900

    The Church of St. Francis Xavier
    Patrick C. Keely, 1882

    Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch
    John Hemenway Duncan, 1892

    Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch Bronze Sculpture
    Frederick MacMonnies, 1894-1901

    Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park
    McKim, Mead & White, 1888-94

    Brooklyn Trust Company Building
    York & Sawyer, 1915

    Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Brooklyn
    Slee & Bryson, 1938


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