Architecture in the Gilded Age
Gilded Age Architecture: Tale of Two Cities New York and Frederic Law Olmstead VS. Chicago and Louis Sullivan, DH Burnam
Chicago Auditorium, Sullivan and Adler, 1887
Carson, Pirie, and Scott Dept Store, Chicago, Sullivan and Adler, 1899
Other Chicago School Buildings Reliance Building, Burnam and Root, 1894 Masonic Temple, Burnam and Root, 1891
Railway Exchange, DH Burnam, 1904 Columbus Memorial Building, WW Boyington, 1891
Bayard-Condict Building, Louis Sullivan (in Chicago School Style), 1899 7
NY Tribune Bldg, 1873 NY Times, 1858 NY World Building, 1890 Famous Newpaper Row on Park Row Street
Park Row Building, HR Robertson, 1899
The Flatiron Building, Daniel Burnam, 1902
Central Park, Frederic Law Olmstead
The Dakota Apts, 1880, N. German Renaissance Style
Macy’s Dept Store, 1901, Richardsonian Romanesque
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Neo-Gothic, 1881, James Renwick
Brooklyn Bridge, opened in 1903
Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park, NY, 1895, Greek Revival
Rockefeller Mansion, Tarrytown, NY, 1913
Biltmore, Ashville, NC, 1895, French Renaissance style
Summer Houses of the Rich and Famous during the Gilded Age The Breakers, Newport, RI, 1893 for Cornelius Vanderbilt, a Gilded Age Architectural Archetype or mix of styles focused on opulence
The Marble House, Newport, 1888, for grandson of Vanderbilt, Beaux Arts style
The Elms, Newport, RI, for Julius Berwind (coal magnate), 1901, Classical Revival