| Clip Of An American Renaissance

Video Clip: A Serendipitous Ending

Description

Author Phillip Dodd closes his lecture on the finest examples of Beaux-Arts Architecture associated with the opulence of the Gilded Age (1877-1920) and the stories of those who commissioned, designed, and built them with a "serendipitous" ending. The Greenwich Historical Society in Cos Cob, Connecticut, hosted this event.

2 minutes

Keywords

  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Antiquity
  • Duty
  • Henry Clay Frick
  • Import
  • Investor
  • J. P. Morgan
  • Serendipitous
  • Titanic
  • White Star Line