Carrère & Hastings’ building on Fifth Avenue would be the administrative and symbolic center of this network. An intensive public debate surrounded the selection of the best location for the new library.

In collaboration with Hastings, he was largely responsible for carrying out the firm's major public commissions: the New York Public Library (1897–1912), the House and Senate Office Buildings in Washington (1908–09), the planning of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo (1901), the McKinnley Memorial in Buffalo, Richmond Borough Hall on ...

Library (1911) Following an open competition among scores of the city's most prominent architects, the relatively unknown firm of Carrère and Hastings was selected to design and construct the new library. The result, regarded as the apogee of Beaux-Arts design, was the largest marble structure ever attempted in the United States.

McKim, Mead & White had recently completed the Boston Public Library, a celebrated design that for the first time made the public library a commanding monument within an American city and that provided the most direct model for New York’s library.

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.

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...

Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, was one of the outstanding American Beaux-Arts architecture firms. The firm rose to national prominence by winning the competition for the New York Public Library in 1897.

Dec 20, 2012 · The New York Public Library (NYPL) has unveiled the details of their controversial plan to renovate the 20th century, Carrère and Hastings “masterpiece” on 5th Avenue.

Jun 30, 2020 · The library in 2019: The New York Public Library system has its origins in a number of 19th century private libraries, including the Astor Library and the Lenox Library. In 1895, these were consolidated into a single, city-wide public library, but the organization was in need of a suitable building.

The Public Library's main building is the crowning achievement of the Beaux-Arts architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings. Its holdings include a Gutenberg Bible and a Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.