Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
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Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, founded as Shreve & Lamb, was an architectural firm best known for designing the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion in 1931. The firm was prominent in the proliferation of Art Deco architecture in New York City.
The Empire State Building, Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon's best known work
500 Fifth Avenue (1931)
North Building, Hunter College
Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and United States Courthouse (1932)
Carrère and Hastings
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Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, was an American architecture firm specializing in Beaux-Arts architecture. Located in New York City, the firm practiced from 1885 until 1929, although Hastings practiced alone after Carrère died in an automobile accident in 1911.
The New York Public Library Main Branch, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects. Photographed during late construction in 1908.
John Merven Carrère
Bust of Thomas Hastings, New York Public Library
Ponce de Leon Hotel, 1885–88 (now Flagler College)