Architect
Carrère & Hastings designed houses, theaters, and major public buildings.
Compare the New York Public Library with the Henry T. Sloane Residence and Lunt-Fontanne Theater. Look at how their facades and entrances serve different settings.
15 building histories
Residential · 1907-08
69 East 79th Street, New York, NY
This imposing residence designed by Carrere & Hastings in a late French Baroque style was built between 1907 and 1908 for George and Sarah Rives. The building is representative of the large town houses erected on the...
Read the storyCommercial · 1920-21
25 Broadway, New York, NY
Located at the head of Bowling Green and extending through the block to Greenwich Street, the twenty-two-story Cunard Building is among lower Manhattan's most architecturally and historically significant edifices. It...
Read the storyReligious · 1899-1903
1 West 96th Street, New York, NY
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1899-1903 at the northeast corner of Central Park West and 96th Street, was designed by the noted architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings and is in the finest tradition...
Read the storyCommercial · 1911-12
1790 Broadway, New York, NY
This elegant, Beaux-Arts style, twenty- story office building was constructed in 1911- 12 for the United States Rubber Company at a time when the automobile was beginning to exert a powerful influence on American...
Read the storyReligious · 1913-14
21 Wadsworth Avenue, New York, NY
Fort Washington Presbyterian Church, built 1913-14 to the designs of Thomas Hastings of the firm of Carrère & Hastings as a daughter church to West Park Presbyterian Church, is an imposing neo-Georgian building,...
Read the storyRecreational · 1898-1900
130 Pitt Street, New York, NY
The Hamilton Fish Park Play Center is among the most notable small civic buildings in New York City. Designed in 1898 by Carrere & Hastings, one of America's foremost architectural firms at the turn of the century, this...
Read the storyResidential · 1894-96
9 East 72nd Street, New York, NY
The prominent architectural firm of Carrere & Hastings was commissioned In the early 1890s to design this large townhouse for the merchant prince, Henry T. Sloane. This elegant house is an especially fine example of the...
Read the storyResidential · 1902-03
9 East 91st Street, New York, NY
This grand residence was built in 1902-03 and designed by the prestigious architects Carrere & Hastings, noted for the New York Public Library and the Henry Clay Frick Mansion. The Hammond House is a fine example of a...
Read the storyTheater · 1909-10
203 West 46th Street, New York, NY
The Lunt-Fontanne Theater survives today as one of the historic theaters that symbolize American theater for both New York and the nation. Built in 1910 as Charles Dillingham's Globe Theater, and designed by Carrere &...
Read the storyLibrary · 1906
209 W 23rd Street, New York, NY
Opened on February 19, 1906, the neoClassical Muhlenberg Branch was the eleventh Carnegie branch built in Manhattan and the twenty-eighth of sixty-seven branch libraries built in New York City, with Andrew Carnegie's...
Read the storyLibrary · 1898-1911
476 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The Central Building of the New York Public Library occupies a fabulous site, that has often been referred to as "the crossroads of the world". This majestic marble building, one of the masterpieces of the Beaux-Arts...
Read the storyLibrary · 1914-15
518 West 125th Street, New York, NY
The striking brick and limestone George Bruce Library building is an excellent example of Georgian Revival-style civic architecture, designed by the prominent architecture firm of Carrere & Hastings. The firm is noted...
Read the storyCommercial · 1921-28
26 Broadway, New York, NY
The Standard Oil Building, largely erected between 1921 and 1926 and finally completed in 1928, incorporates the company's original building (built in 1884-85 and enlarged in 1895). Designed by Thomas Hastings of the...
Read the storyBridge · 1912-15
Manhattan Bridge Plaza & Canal Street, New York, NY
New York's first bridges were engineering marvels, but little thought was given to entrances and exits, instead focusing primarily on the river crossing. That changed with the evolution of the City Beautiful movement,...
Read the storyMuseum · 1913-14
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY
Henry Clay Frick commissioned Carrère & Hastings to design his Fifth Avenue home, built in 1913–14. The limestone mansion included a long picture gallery and a garden facing the avenue. Frick intended the house and art...
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