Tag: Richard Morris Hunt

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 150 Years of History on Display

Post author By Greg Young
Post date October 9, 2020
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EPISODE 341 Celebrating the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 150th anniversary year of its founding — certainly one of the strangest years in its extraordinary existence. The Met is really the king of New York attractions, with visitors heading up to Central Park and streaming through the doors by the millions to gasp at… Read More

Tags architects, art, artists, Central Park, Cleopatra's Needle, Cloisters, costumes, fashion, J.P.Morgan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Richard Morris Hunt

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The Stuyvesant, New York’s first apartment building: Imported luxury style for a new middle class

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date November 18, 2011
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The creation of ‘acceptable’ communal living: The Stuyvesant Flats, at 142 East 18th Street, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, photographed by Berenice Abbott. PODCAST Well, we’re movin’ on up….to the first New York apartment building ever constructed. New Yorkers of the emerging middle classes needed a place to live situated between the townhouse and the… Read More

Tags apartments, Calvert Vaux, Peter Stuyvesant, Podcasts, Richard Morris Hunt, Statue of Liberty