The Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow Size:18x24 The Gilded Palace Where Astors

The Gilded Palace Where Astors Built Their Empire in Brick and Ambition renders the Waldorf-Astoria in its Fifth Avenue prime — a chateauesque pile of turrets and dormers where a single family's feud became Manhattan's grandest hotel

Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th-century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies — the era when astronomy was still natural philosophy

The Lucker Keg Patent — Blueprint of Prohibitions End belongs to that quiet golden age of American distilling

George Reef Lighthouse Architectural Plans the Impossible Light Station Blueprint drawn for the most punishing build on the Pacific — a granite fortress wedged onto Northwest Seal Rock six miles off California's Del Norte coast

The Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow Size:18x24 The Gilded Palace Where AstorsThe Gothic Spires of Fifth Avenue, A Monument in Stone and Shadow renders St. Patrick's twin towers in the brooding chiaroscuro of a Gilded Age plate pinnacles and flying buttresses sharpened against a leaden sky, the avenue below hushed by the cathedral's long ecclesiastical shadow. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers, postcard