By Skip Moskey The Albert Clifford Barney House, photograph by Geo. Price, ca. 1891 (Alice Pike Barney Papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives) On Friday afternoon, April 10, 1891, from 4 to 7 o’clock in the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Clifford Barney hosted a tea at their new home at 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, in the […]
April 2025
skipmoskey | The Gilded Age in America | Page 2
Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC., 1905, designed by the Boston architectural firm of Arthur Little & Herbert Brown. (Photo by Skip Moskey.) Did you know that, like people, buildings have their own “genealogy”? I’m not talking about the style of a house (such as Gothic Revival, Art Deco, or International), nor am […]