The Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded Age Manhattan Architecture Print discipline_wall_art domestic kind of light

domestic kind of light

once the tallest point in Manhattan

and the right shaker were all part of the same continuous performance

and the artifacts of American local memory

The Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded Age Manhattan Architecture Print discipline_wall_art domestic kind of lightThe Vanderbilt Hotel Gilded Age Manhattan Architecture Print renders the Park Avenue tower commissioned by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt himself a 1912 monument to Beaux Arts ambition where terra cotta arches and Guastavino tile vaults announced that the family's empire had migrated upward into the Manhattan skyline. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press