Hiding behind its exclusive-sounding name and imposing facade brooding over Massachusetts Avenue was a stunning Gilded Age palace built for yet another charmed couple of seemingly endless means.
Some of the great imperial monuments erected during the Carolingian age (palace of Ingelheim, palace of Aachen) reveal the permanence of ancient tradition in their regular plans and conception.
The mystery centered on a long-lost script from Aegean antiquity known as Linear B. Inscribed on clay tablets around 1450 B.C., Linear B was unearthed in 1900 on Crete, amid the ruins of a lavish Bronze Age palace.
About 530 bc a large peripteral temple (one having a row of columns on all sides) to Athena Polias (Guardian of the City) was erected near the centre of the Acropolis, on the site of the old Bronze Age palace.
We present here a study of plastered surfaces in a Middle Bronze Age palace located at Tel Kabri, a Canaanite polity in the southern Levant that was connected to the Aegean world.
The Hotels of Midtown East," looks at styles of the last century, from Gilded Age palaces to Art Deco to modern boutique-style hotels, meeting on the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 63rd Street.
There are not many of these gilded-age palaces left, partly because the ground they were built on was always immensely valuable, and therefore tempting for redevelopment, but partly also because the style in which they were designed and decorated went out of fashion and came to seem ridiculous to the families who lived in them.
As tourists queue up along Bellevue Avenue every day awaiting admission to Gilded Age palaces turned museums, like the Breakers or the Elms, they are not likely to have much inkling that, behind the nearby hedges, there remains intact a world of emerald-barnacled dinosaurs attended by uniformed retainers and underwritten by ironclad fiduciary trusts.
A few Gilded Age palaces remain, too, like the building that is now the Polish Consulate, on Madison Avenue at 37th Street, and an 1891 McKim, Mead & White house at Park Avenue and 35th Street, now a co-op for a few lucky residents.
An exhibition of the pieces -- organized by No Longer Empty, a nonprofit art group that got its start in 2009 by using spaces made vacant by the recession -- will open April 4, granting the public access to one of the city's stranger Gilded Age palaces for the first time.
