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… that “beauty as well as open air and cheap rents are essentials of the American home.”!? R. T. H. Halsey, the collection’s first curator, explicitly reflecting the xenophobia that underlay so much of the civicism of the American Renaissance, hoped that “a visual personification of home life in this country” would combat “the influx of foreign ideas utterly at variance with those held by the men who gave us the Republic. . . .” The American Wing was intended to represent “traditions so dear to us and so invaluable in the Americanization of many of our people, to whom much of our history is little-known.”!* The wing also made the most ambitious use of the approach pioneered in America by George Francis Dow, who in 1907 had installed period rooms at the Essex

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… while for that very reason every enrichment will have greatly enhanced value.”!*! The architects, Halsey, McCormick & Helmer, found their inspiration in Giles Gilbert Scott’s Liverpool Cathedral, even mimicking the cathedral’s double transepts. Yet in translating Scott’s design to the scale of a parish church the architects lost much of its coherence. They included rather more “necessary structural parts” than were in fact needed; the result was a vigorous but overdone pile of massive brick buttresses and receding wall planes. The design’s problems were exacerbated by a nasty trick of the real estate market; the context was uniformly low scale when the church was designed, but shortly after, the architects were commissioned to erect the 512-foot Williamsburgh Savings Bank next door—an unhappy juxtaposition of scales. Whatever its faults, the church boasted an ingenious method of combining the various functions of a parish plant in a single package: the low aisles were in fact shopfronts—a novel method of subsidizing a church—and the auditorium was raised up two short flights of stairs to accommodate a doubleheight banquet hall and a gymnasium below grade.

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… Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the publisher of the Daily News and cousin of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, who in 1921 had awarded Howells & Hood the commission for its headquarters building after they won an international competition sponsored by the newspaper. For Patterson, who wanted a pied-a-terre for his own use in conjunction with a small number of rental apartments, Howells & Hood designed a building with continuously banded vertical windows reading as pilasters and columns, which were prototypical of their more famous Daily News Building of 1929-30. The facade at 3 East Eightyfourth Street exhibited a sophisticated interplay between a dominant, symmetrically fenestrated element expressing the large living room and a secondary element to its side, marked by a continuous column of bay windows, a feature that gave way at the top of the building to a terrace belonging to the owner’s apartment. The building abounded in fine details, including delicate French-inspired metal tracery on the front door, diagonal patterning in the stringcourse, and decorative metalwork on the elevator doors and in the public spaces.

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… commercial district. Though such forecasts proved overly optimistic, they inspired the architects, Halsey, McCormack & Helmer, to transform Brooklyn’s tallest building into a civic monument. At its base the building was clad in limestone and punctuated by huge arched windows that lit the ground-floor banking room. Above a Romanesque arcade at the sixth floor, the facades shifted to gray brick and a quick rhythm of vertical piers. Above the sixteenth floor, the massing somewhat awkwardly broke into a cruciform tower rising to open loggias, a small square shaft bearing four clock faces, and finally an octagonal pavilion crowned by an exotic gilt

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… SAVINGS BANK BUILDING, One Hanson Place, at Ashland Place and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. Halsey, McCormick & Helmer, 1927-29. View from the south. Lincoln. PENN

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12. R.T. H. Halsey and Charles O. Cornelius, A Handbook of the American Wing: Opening Exhibition (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1924); R. T. H. Halsey and Charles O. Cornelius, “The American Wing,” Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 19 (August 1924): 251-64; “The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Architecture and Building 56 (November 1924): 103-6, plates 216-19; Robert W. De Forest, “Address on the Opening of the American Wing,” Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 19 (November 1924): 287-88; R. T. H. Halsey and Charles O. Cornelius, “A Notable Gift to the American People,” Architecture 51 (January 1925): 13-16; T. R, Adam, The Civic Value of Museums (New York: American Association for Adult Education, 1937), 49; R. T. H. Halsey and Elizabeth Tower, The Homes of Our Ancestors As Shown in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1937); Lerman, The Museum, 140, 145, 149; Tomkins, Merchants and Masterpieces, 195-204; Wendy Kaplan, “R. T. H. Halsey: An Ideology of Collecting American Decorative Arts,” Winterthur Portfolio 17 (spring 1982): 51; William B. Rhoads, “The Colonial Revival and the Americanization of Immigrants,” in Alan Axelrod, ed., The Colonial Revival in America (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985), 341-61.

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14. Halsey and Tower, The Homes of Our Ancestors, xxi-xxii.

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15. De Forest, Sage, and Halsey visited the institute in 1909, just after Mrs. Sage gave the Metropolitan the Bolles Collection of Early American Furniture. See Tomkins, Merchants and Masterpieces, 197-98. The trend toward scenographic museum design began in Europe as early as 1884, when the Hotel de Cluny was opened as a museum in Paris. There, both fine arts and crafts were displayed in a medieval building, but there was no attempt to reconstruct a domestic environment: glass cases still prevailed. By 1888, at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, art and furniture were exhibited as a domestic ensemble in a collection of period rooms. The next step was reached at the Bavarian National Museum in 1894—1900, where the galleries simulated the period’s architecture with genuine artifacts sometimes worked into the architectural environment. No clear distinction was made between modern and old work. See Fiske Kimball, “The Modern Museum of Art,” Architectural Record 66 (December 1929): 559-80.

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16. Halsey and Cornelius, “A Notable Gift to the American People”: 13. 17. Halsey and Cornelius, “A Notable Gift to the American People”: 13. 18. Alan Bumham, New York Landmarks: A Study and Index of Architecturally Notable Structures in Greater New York (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1963), 56-57.

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… branch located at 159 West Seventy-second Street between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues, and Halsey, McCormack & Helmer’s 1932 East New York Savings Bank at the comer of Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue. For Renwick, Aspinwall & Guard’s bank, see Robinson and Bletter, Skyscraper Style, plate 95. For Halsey, McCormack & Helmer’s bank, see “East New York Savings Bank, Brooklyn, New York,” Architectural Record 72 (September 1932): 174-75.

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Halsey, McCormick & Helmer, 167, 544

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Halsey, R.T.H., 126

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… Floyd, 281 McCausland, Elizabeth, 75 McClelland, Nancy, 359 McComb, John, Jr., 94, 132, 167 McCormick, Col. Robert R., 397 McCrea, A. Wallace, 372, 377 McCreery’s, 317, 318 MacDougall, Alice Foote, 272-75 MacDougall, E.H., 482 MacDougall Alley, 297, 426, 427

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New York 1930 : architecture and urbanism between the two world wars

by: Stern, Robert A. M

Publication date: 1987

Topics: Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century, New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc

Publisher: New York : Rizzoli

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

847 p. : 29 cm

Bibliography: p. 760-830

Includes index

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