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Christian Herter's decoration of the William H. Vanderbilt house in New York City.
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An anonymous writer in 1887 claimed that "every private residence ever before constructed in America is entirely eclipsed by the house of the American railway king, Mr. William H. Vanderbilt [Fig. 1]."(1) It was estimated that between six and seven hundred men worked to complete the huge Beaux-Arts house at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York City in the remarkably short time of just over two years.(2) The total expense, inside and out, was approximately $1.75 million for a house that spanned the entire block between Fifty-first and Fifty-second Streets (Fig. 2).(3) The interior…
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Christian Herter's decoration of the William H. Vanderbilt house in New York...
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