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Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère (/ k ə ˈ r ɛər / kə-RAIR; November 9, 1858 – March 1, 1911) and Thomas Hastings (March 11, 1860 – October 22, 1929), was an American architecture firm specializing in Beaux-Arts architecture.
John Merven Carrère (1858-1911) and Thomas Hastings (1860-1929) were two of the most prominent architects of America’s Gilded Age. Trained at the École de Beaux Arts—the prestigious Parisian art school— Carrère and Hastings apprenticed with McKim, Mead, and White in New York before opening their own firm in 1885.
Carrère & Hastings’ architectural dressing for the library has seemed to all these people, and even to the harshest critics today, to be an appropriate and enduring sign of the institution’s signal importance to the intellectual and cultural life of a world metropolis.
Pioneer Information. Brazil-born John Merven Carrère met New Yorker Thomas Hastings at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Graduating in 1882 and 1884 respectively, both men went to work for McKim, Mead & White in New York City. In 1886, they established their own architectural practice.
Aug 25, 2016 · Well-respected and well-connected, the architectural partnership of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings birthed some of the most impressive examples of Beaux-Arts-style turn-of-the-century...
Mark Alan Hewitt, Kate Lemos, et al. Carrère & Hastings, Architects. 2 vols. (New York: Acanthus Press, 2006). Paul Andrija Ranogajec, “Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City’s Architecture.” Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 2014. Henry Hope Reed and Francis Morrone.
Nov 17, 2015 · The authors begin this handsome monograph with a provocative assertion: If John Merven Carrère had been gunned down by an ex-lover's jealous husband instead of dying in a taxi accident, Carrère & Hastings would be as famous today as McKim, Mead & White.
In this lavishly illustrated NYPL classic, art historian Ingrid Steffensen traces the history of Carrère & Hastings’s architectural masterpiece, including the recent restoration of its monumental marble facade and decorative embellishments — fountains, attic figures, and pediment groups — to their original Beaux-Arts glory.
Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, was one of the outstanding American Beaux-Arts architecture firms. Located in New York City, the firm practiced from 1885 until 1929, although Carrère died in an automobile accident in 1911.
Embassy of Lao People's Democratic Republic. 1929, Washington, District of Columbia Boise Depot. 1924, Boise, Idaho Wellesley Village Church. 1923, Wellesley, Massachusetts
