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An Evening with Barry Lewis: The Gilded Age SOLD OUT

In the years between the end of the Civil War and World War I (1865–1917), America’s nouveau riche mimicked the gilded life of the European aristocracy. If in the early years of that era Americans brought a new definition to bad taste, by the 1880s and ’90s the first generation of professionally trained American architects infused a refreshing spirit of simplicity, functionalism and innovation into the 400-year-old Renaissance tradition of neo-classicism.

Barry Lewis, the long-time host of a popular walking tour series on PBS, is an architectural historian who teaches at Cooper Union Forum and specializes in European and American Architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries.











When: Tue., Dec. 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $44
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In the years between the end of the Civil War and World War I (1865–1917), America’s nouveau riche mimicked the gilded life of the European aristocracy. If in the early years of that era Americans brought a new definition to bad taste, by the 1880s and ’90s the first generation of professionally trained American architects infused a refreshing spirit of simplicity, functionalism and innovation into the 400-year-old Renaissance tradition of neo-classicism.

Barry Lewis, the long-time host of a popular walking tour series on PBS, is an architectural historian who teaches at Cooper Union Forum and specializes in European and American Architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries.

Buy tickets/get more info now