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	New York Architecture Images- Carrere and Hastings
		Hastings was endowed with a respectable social position and a familiarity with the city that Carrère lacked.
		Hastings also felt that the last great advances in architectural design were at the time of the Renaissance, which is why he designed in the Italian, French and Spanish Renaissance styles.
		Hastings disliked the trend toward skyscrapers, and argued that buildings constructed for business profits ought to be restricted in height, so as to maintain a certain look to the entire city.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-CarrereHastings.htm (3434 words)

	Carrère and Hastings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The firm's founders, John Carrère (1858–1911) and Thomas Hastings (1860–1929) studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and worked at the firm of McKim, Mead, and White before they established their own partnership.
		Their firm was successful locally in New York City in the 1880s and early 1890s, and rose to national prominence by winning the competition for the New York Public Library in 1897.
		One of the most beautiful and intact creation by the firm are the parks that surround the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon, Baltimore, which remain essentially as conceived by the firm more than a century ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carrere_and_Hastings (901 words)

	Carrère and Hastings -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The firm's founders, John Carrère (1858—1911) and Thomas Hastings (1860—1929) studied at the (Click link for more info and facts about École des Beaux-Arts) École des Beaux-Arts and worked at the firm of (Click link for more info and facts about McKim, Mead, and White) McKim, Mead, and White before they established their own partnership.
		John Mervin Carrere was born in (The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil; chief Brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the son of a prosperous French-American coffee trader.
		Thomas Hastings was a New Yorker from a colonial Yankee background; his father was a Presbyterian minister and president of the (Click link for more info and facts about Union Theological Seminary) Union Theological Seminary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carr%e8re_and_hastings.htm (818 words)

	THOMAS HASTINGS - JOHN MERVIN CARRERE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The year was 1885 when Carrere and Hastings joined forces, leaving McKim, Mead and White to form their own design firm which would ultimately become equally famous for beauty and elegance in architectural design.
		Carrere and his family resided until his death), the fabled team of Carrere and Hastings also created the Manhattan Bridge and the exquisite New York Public Library, at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, both of which still stand today, as well as other monuments to the enduring beauty and craftsmanship they practiced.
		Carrere and the two men formed an alliance that is still respected a hundred years later in architectural circles and by lovers of beauty.
	www.heraldsquarehotel.com /h_c.htm (658 words)

	History of 736 Jackson Place - ONAP
		Attribution of the 1895 remodeling to the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings was based upon a review of building permits [4] which were available after 1877, and inspection of the building itself.
		Carrere and Hastings, an architectural firm formed in 1884, designed the interior renovation of 736 Jackson Place in 1895.
		John Mervin Carrere (1858-191 1) and Thomas Hastings (1860-1929) were both graduates of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris who worked as draftsmen In the New York office of McKim, Mead and White before beginning their partnership.
	clinton3.nara.gov /onap/736history.html (4168 words)

	Carrere and Hastings - Great Buildings Online
		John Mervin Carrere was born to a prosperous family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1858.
		Hastings was born in New York, New York in 1860.
		Carrere died in an automobile accident in 1911, just two months before the dedication of the firm's celebrated New York Public Library.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Carrere_and_Hastings.html (363 words)

	John Merven Carrere: Biography of John Merven Carrere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carrere was born of American parents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 9, 1858.
		Partner with Thomas Hastings in firm Carrere & Hastings, 1884-1911, architects of the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels, St. Augustine, Florida; the New York Public Library; Academy of Design, and many other noted buildings.
		Carrere was a fellow in the American Institution of Architects.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/C/JohnMervenCarrere.html (78 words)

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		The Blairsden Mansion was built during the late-Victorian/early Edwardian era by Carrere and Hastings, who designed the New York Public Library.
		It contains twenty-six fireplaces, a pool, Turish style baths, perpendicular halls to the entrance connecting all the important rooms on the first floor, an indoor tennis court, and a squash court.(2) The roof is slate and the exterior walls are made of concrete (30-inch think) with an outer covering of brick.
		Carrere and Hastings also created a specific detail for their country-estates.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=253 (539 words)

	Children's Village: Directions
		Architects for this classically inspired Renaissance Revival mansion were Carrere and Hastings, who designed The Frick Collection and The New York Public Library, both on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
		The Thompson and the Frick mansions have similar architectural components and are outstanding examples of Carrere and Hastings' creative adaptation of Renaissance Revival design.
		Carrere and Hastings also built several Florida mansions, as Henry Flagler the railroad magnate, was one of their early clients.
	www.childrensvillage.org /mystery/aldermanor.html (595 words)

	hastings
		Grep of noun hastings battle of hastings hastings thomas hastings Overview of noun hastings The noun hastings has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1.
		Hastings, battle of Hastings -- (the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest) Overview of noun hastings The noun hastings has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts) 1.
		Hastings, battle of Hastings -- (the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest)
	www.beetfoundation.com /words/h/alt.hastings.html (247 words)

	Dr. Bronson's History Page - Flagler Era
		On the exchange of land from Flagler the offer was accepted and Carrere and Hastings designed the Spanish Renaissance poured concrete building and McGuire and McDonald built it at a cost of $85,000.
		Thomas Hastings, Henry Flagler and the Founding of the Town of Hastings (not the architect of the Ponce de Leon) Tomas Hastings and Mary Esther Mellon were married in 1884.
		Thomas Hastings, the architect with Carrere and Hastings who designed the Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine, and Thomas Horace Hastings were distant cousins — their great grandfathers were brothers.
	www.drbronsontours.com /bronsonhistorypageamericanstaugustineflagler.html (5784 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Frick Collection
		Carrere and Hastings, 1913-14; entrance pavilion and library, John Russell Pope, 1931-35; garden addition, Harry Van Dyke, John Barrington Bayley, and G. Frederick Poehler, 1977; garden, Russell Page.
		The Frick Collection is housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist.
		Frick bequeathed the residence and the works of art he had collected over a period of forty years to a Board of Trustees, permitting them to add to his collection (almost a third of the paintings were acquired since his death) and to make it a center for the study of art and related subjects.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /UES/UES044.htm (1317 words)

	hastings
		Hastings is a town and port in southeastern England, in the historic county of Sussex.
		Hastings was one of the Cinque Ports, but its significance as a port declined after the Middle Ages and its main industry became fishing
		Hastings is linked to London by two railway lines, to Victoria via Lewes and to Charing Cross via Ashford, Kent.
	www.fact-library.com /hastings.html (173 words)

	Junior League of Richmond - Mayo Carter House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carrere and Hastings was one of the leading architectural firms in this country until the death of Mr.
		Their notable buildings include the New York City Public Library, Wolsey Hall and Memorial Hall at Yale University, the interior of the Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Bank of Canada, the First Christian Science Church in New York City, and the Manhattan Bridge over the East River.
		The Mayo-Carter House was the only townhouse designed by Carrere and Hastings in Richmond.
	www.jlrichmond.org /History/Mayo2.asp (558 words)

	John Merven Carrere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carrere and Hastings (Thomas Hastings), headquartered in NYC 1885-1911, were the architects in charge of the Exposition and had also worked with
		The best-known works of Carrère and Hastings are the New York Public Library (commission awarded in competition; completed 1911), the office buildings of the Senate and the House, and the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C. Source: Encyclopedia.com
		He worked in the office of McKim, Mead, and White, New York City, and in 1886 commenced practice in partnership with John M. Carrère.
	ah.bfn.org /h/panam/panwho/carrere/carrere.html (225 words)

	The Great Homes of America's Gilded Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Photos of Carrère and of Hastings are courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission.
		nd Hastings were awarded the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal for the home of Murry and Leonie Guggenheim near Elberon, New Jersey.
		DuPont was one of Carrère and Hastings’ most devoted patrons, and his Wilmington Delaware estate, Nemours, features one of the firm’s most spectacular garden designs.
	www.flaglermuseum.us /winter_2004_exhibit.html (435 words)

	Junior League of Richmond - Mayo Carter House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The firm, Carrere and Hastings, was a very popular New York firm that had finished numerous important commissions for Henry Flagler in Florida before coming to Richmond to do the Jefferson Hotel for Lewis Ginter.
		John Carrere and Thomas Hastings met while students at the Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris.
		Flagler's residence, "Whitehall", in Palm Beach, was also built by Carrere and Hastings.
	www.jlrichmond.org /History/Mayo.asp (370 words)

	Whitehall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Flagler commissioned the same architects responsible for his Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine, John Carrere and Thomas Hastings, to design Whitehall.
		Carrere and Hastings, each trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, apprenticed at the New York firm of McKim, Mead and White, were practitioners of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture made popular at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
		Carrere and Hastings designed the exterior of Whitehall, the interior layout and completely controlled the design of the marble entrance hall and its grand double staircase.
	www.flaglermuseum.us /whitehall.html (521 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1921-1940 > Senators Vote to Knock Out Walls
		The firm of Carrere and Hastings, which had designed the Russell Building a generation earlier, quickly produced the requested plan.
		The architects proposed converting the chamber's configuration to that of a semi-circular amphitheater, lowering the ceiling for improved hearing, and removing several walls to extend the room to the Capitol's northern wall.
		To brighten the chamber's dreary interior, Carrere and Hastings proposed the addition of three two-story-high windows in the outer wall, along with a ventilating apparatus to draw fresh air into the chamber.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Senators_Vote_To_Knock_Out_Walls.htm (455 words)

	The Midtown Book - The New York Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The marble walls are one foot thick and the basement of the structure has additional brick walls four feet thick.
		According to Reed, architect Thomas Hastings had urged that the library and the city buy the Fifth Avenue frontage across from the library to a depth of 91 feet, the distance the main building is set back from the avenue, in order to give it a more important, ceremonial setting.
		Seen from 41st Street and Madison or Park Avenue, the library is visually crunched by subsequent development and Hastings unfulfilled wish was too modest, sadly.
	www.thecityreview.com /library.html (1325 words)

	Frick Collection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Frick Collection is an art museum located on Fifth Avenue and 70th street, facing Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.
		It is housed in the former residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914.
		The Frick is one of the preeminent small art museums in the United States, with a very high-quality collection of old master paintings housed in 16 galleries within the former mansion.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frick_Museum (253 words)

	City of Boise - Mayor's Office - Boise Depot History
		New York architects Carrere, Hastings, Shreve and Lando prepared plans for Spanish-style station on the present spectacular site, featuring a grand boulevard plan on a radial with access to the State Capital.
		The approved approach plan was less elaborate than the one originally proposed by architects Carrere and Hastings.
		Herbert A. Clist, member of Carrere and Hastings firm, announced the pleasure he and his associates had planning this Spanish-type railroad station.
	www.cityofboise.org /Parks/parks_facilities/depot/index.aspx?id=history&pf=YES (1256 words)

	USA Freedom Corps: About USA Freedom Corps: History of 736 Jackson Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a move that made her property more marketable, she successfully petitioned the US Government in 1898 for permission to acquire a small plot of land in the rear of the townhouse previously used as a public alley.
		House at 2200 S Street NW (1929) and the David A. Reed House at 2222 S Street NW (1929), both executed in Washington in a modified English Regency style, are among the last projects of the firm.
		Major commissions for public buildings included additions and alterations to the stair hall outside the old Library of Congress in the Capitol (1901), the House and Senate Office Buildings near the Capitol (1905-08), and the Carnegie Institution of Washington at 1530 P Street NW (1908).
	www.usafreedomcorps.gov /content/about_usafc/building (4766 words)

	Encyclopedia: Carrere and Hastings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	the architects Carrere and Hastings and Burroughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The architects of record were John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings of the firm Carrère and Hastings, New York City.
		Other projects of note are St. Paul Chapel on the Columbia University campus, the shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, Church of St. Jean Baptiste at 76th St and Lexington Ave in New York City, and the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer at 68th St and Lexington Ave in New York City.
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	ecommerce.marist.edu /foy/esopus/esop05.htm (5464 words)

	Hastings and Carrere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When he graduated in 1882 he obtained a job with the New York firm of Mckim, Mead, and White.
		After he graduated in 1884, Hastings returned to New York and began working for McKim, Mead and White.
		In the early phase of their careers, Carrere and Hastings designed nearly all of their buildings with elaborate detailing and overscaled ornamentation.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/H/Hastings/Hastings.htm (269 words)

	Carrère and Hastings - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Carrère and Hastings - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Carrère and Hastings biographies, and the Life Magazine Building, now the Herald Square Hotel (http://heraldsquarehotel.com/)
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	Wired New York Forum - View Single Post - Seattle Library - Koolhaas
		But what Koolhaas has done here is not so different, in its way, from what Carrère andamp; Hastings were trying to achieve when they put Astor Hall at the entrance to the New York Public Library.
		When the library on Fifth Avenue was finished, in 1911, a grand library that was free to the public was still a fresh, almost radical notion, and the architecture was intended to give it gravitas.
		Koolhaas and Ramus did not pretend that the world is unchanged since 1911—a view that held sway in Chicago a few years ago when a huge new central library designed by the architect Thomas Beeby went up.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showpost.php?p=27552&postcount=6 (1426 words)

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