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 […]
October 2025
Gardens & Horticulture | The Gilded Age in America | Page 2
My thanks to everyone who responded so favorably to the first installment of Anderson Architectural Antecedants about the English homes of William Waldorf Astor. In what I hope will become an ongoing and perhaps weekly feature, today I present Wrest Park in Silsoe, Bedforshire, England. At the time of the Andersons’ visit in early December 1911, it […]
WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN “E” MAKES. TRACING THE NAME OF GEORGE VANDERBILT’S BAR HARBOR COTTAGE. | The Gilded Age in America
As someone who researches a wide variety of topics related to the intersection of art, architecture, and society during America’s Gilded Age, I have come across something that has confused and perplexed the small community of people who read, write, and think about such things. And that is whether the Bar Harbor “cottage” of George […]
Italy | The Gilded Age in America
Books, Gardens & Horticulture, Italy August 25, 2017 skipmoskey By Skip Moskey Edith Wharton, ca. 1889 Edith Wharton is known in American cultural history primarily as the author of Gilded Age novels that for a century have captivated and entertained readers. Her works The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth, and Ethan Frome have been adapted as […]
Travel & Entertainment | The Gilded Age in America
By Skip Moskey Ambassador and Mrs. Larz Anderson, 1924, by Philip de László. The Andersons were among Washington’s most glamorous couples. Everything about them was glamorous: their homes, their clothing, their art, and their style. (Photo by Skip Moskey.) In Part 1 of this two-part series, I reviewed the relationship between the architectural form and […]
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A Gorinto is the Japanese interpretation of a type of Buddhist pagoda used as a memorial or burial marker. Larz and Isabel Anderson saw many of these on their trips to Japan and purchased one for their estate in Brookline, MA. Their estate is now the Larz Anderson Park. A Gorinto has five levels, each with […]
Biography | The Gilded Age in America
February 1, 2018 skipmoskey By Skip Moskey Mark Twain’s house (view from the rear), Hartford, Connecticut (Photo by Skip Moskey) Since the publication of my biography of Isabel and Larz Anderson in 2016, people have asked me where my fascination (or some might say – my obsession) with the Gilded Age came from. I blame […]
The Gilded Age in America | A compendium of short, illustrated essays about the people, buildings, gardens, art, books and more that define the long 19th-century in the U.S. | Page 76
A Gorinto is the Japanese interpretation of a type of Buddhist pagoda used as a memorial or burial marker. Larz and Isabel Anderson saw many of these on their trips to Japan and purchased one for their estate in Brookline, MA. Their estate is now the Larz Anderson Park. A Gorinto has five levels, each with […]
Gilded Age | The Gilded Age in America
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 […]
Book Trailer | The Gilded Age in America
Book Trailer, Publication Updates Click here to order on Amazon. What others are saying about the book: “This first-ever book on Larz and Isabel Anderson is a good read. The story is told through rich material drawn from the couple’s own letters and diaries, and those of their contemporaries. The weaving together of various sources […]
Form Follows Function: The Genius of Anderson House | The Gilded Age in America
By Skip Moskey Anderson House (1905) in Washington, D.C. From the moment Gilded Age guests arrived at this imposing mansion on the capital’s prestigious Massachusetts Avenue, they knew they were about to spend an evening with important and interesting people. (Photo by Skip Moskey.) Anderson House in Washington, D.C., the winter home of Larz and […]
Japan | The Gilded Age in America
February 7, 2016 skipmoskey The lives and stories of many Gilded Age personalities weave their way in and out of the great narrative of the Andersons’ lives told in my biography of the couple: Larz and Isabel Anderson: Wealth and Celebrity in the Gilded Age. One of the most interesting people I came across while writing […]