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 […]
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 […]
By Skip Moskey Twin Memorials to Commodore G.H. Perkins by Daniel Chester French. Left: New Hampshire State House (1902); right: U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis (1911). After the death of her father Commodore George Hamilton Perkins in 1899, Isabel Anderson began plans for a memorial to him on the grounds of the New Hampshire State House in […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
Nicholas Longworth Anderson Bridge, Boston July 17, 1920 In 1913, after he returned from his ambassadorship in Tokyo, Larz Anderson commissioned a memorial to his father, a bridge across the Charles River in Boston that would connect Harvard’s Cambridge campus to its stadium in Boston. Designed by Boston city architect Edmund Wheelwright, it was known in […]
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 it all on Mark […]
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 […]
