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Jesuit Gothic
The Duane Library at New York’s Fordham University Think of Jesuits and architecture and you probably think of the Baroque. At Fordham University, however, the SJs followed the American fashion and...
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American Exuberant
I have seen far too little of California, which is a shame because the confident freehand of American architecture between the wars reaches its greatest exuberance in the Golden State. William Gayton...
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In the Courts of the Lord
Well, not quite a lord, but a Vanderbilt — which in America is much the same. The indoor tennis courts at “Idle Hour” in Oakdale, L.I., were some of the grandest ever built in the United States. The...
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Sag Harbor Cinema
For a film fan, to grow up in an American town with a small cinema is to win the lottery of life. In my childhood, we had the advantage of two little movie houses within walking distance: the...
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Riverside Park Volunteer House
Manhattan’s Riverside Park is one of the jewels of the island, with four miles of rustic beauty spilling down to the Hudson River (with, alas, the Henry Hudson Parkway in between). These riparian...
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