Architecture in the Gilded Age

Gilded Age Architecture: Tale of Two Cities

New York and Frederic Law Olmstead

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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, 1894Masonic Temple, Burnam and Root,

1891

Columbus Memorial Building, WW Boyington, 1891

Railway Exchange, DH Burnam, 1904

Bayard-Condict Building, Louis Sullivan (in Chicago School Style), 1899

NY World Building, 1890

NY Tribune Bldg, 1873

NY Times, 1858

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