On Open Studio : Restoration Of Saint-Gaudensâ 54th Monument By GBH Staff
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Open Studio With Jared Bowen, we tell the story and document the restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. Augustus Saint-Gaudens took nearly 14 years to complete this high-relief bronze monument, which celebrates the valor and sacrifices of the Massachusetts 54th.
One of the premier artists of his day, Saint-Gaudens grew up in New York and Boston, but received formal training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In his studio in New York, he hired 40 men to serve as models for the soldiersâ faces. Paid for by private donations and unveiled on May 31, 1897, this monument depicts the 54th Regiment as they marched down Beacon Street, and off for war in 1863.
The story of how our architecturally exceptional 1913 library was created captures an important moment in New Canaan’s history. It was planned and built during the confluence of two progressive reform movements that changed American and local culture: the public library movement promoting literacy and extending educational opportunity beyond formal schooling, and the city beautiful movement improving civic centers with classical architecture. New Canaan was ripe for both, with the library’s books and reading room ill-housed in a cramped second floor mid-block building above the
Advertiser’s printing presses and neighbored by stables and saloons.
New Canaan was also then undergoing major demographic change, its declining industrial economy being transformed by the arrival of a large colony of summer residents attracted to the town’s scenery and train connection to New York. Among the summer residents here by 1911 were at least six accomplished architects who shar
Cool Spaces: Architect Ernest Flagg and his fieldstone houses
Updated Nov 10, 2020;
Posted Nov 10, 2020
Built: 1898, the mansion of Architect Ernest Flagg. The property is was afterwards owned by the St. Charles Seminary. Flagg also designed many smaller stone houses on Todt Hill, with both affordability and beauty in mind in their construction.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Famed U.S. architect Ernest Flagg left his mark on Todt Hill from his Colonial-revival Flagg estate at 209 Flagg Place to more modest homes and cottages along the east shore.
Ernest Flagg was born in Brooklyn in 1857, studied architecture at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and took on some notable projects early in his career. One was the classic Singer Building and Tower, which was the world’s tallest building, at 612 feet, in 1908 at 149 Broadway and Liberty Street in downtown Manhattan.
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Remembering Hassan El Glaoui: the Moroccan artist who was encouraged to paint by Winston Churchill
Touria El Glaoui, daughter of Moroccan modernist Hassan El Glaoui, shares memories of her father with Myrna Ayad. This account, part of our Remembering the Artist series, is based on their interview Autoportrait by Moroccan artist Hassan El Galaoui, circa 1960. Private collection of the Artist Plateau de poires et pommes , circa 1990, by Hassan El Glaoui. Private collection of the artist Le Bouquet , circa 1990, by Hassan Glaoui. Private Collection of the artist Jeune Garcon , circa 1944, by Hassan El Glaoui. Private collection of the artist Houria , circa 1950, by Hassan El Glaoui. Private collection of the artist