Beaux Arts

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Lee are selling a two-story, beaux-arts mansion built in 1910. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes ❋ David Galenson (2011)

Sketch for Le Pont de l'Europe, Gustave Caillebotte, 1876, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes ❋ David Galenson (2011)

Brown, the architect of the San Francisco City Hall and the vaguely nozzle-shaped Coit Tower -- apparently a coincidence, despite the fireman connections -- was the finest beaux-arts classicist and was, around the same time at work on a handsome Byzantinoid synagogue, also in San Francisco, Temple Emanu-El. ❋ Unknown (2009)

John Burd stands on the former site of Shamokin, Pennsylvania's Victoria Theatre with scavenged remnants of the demolished 1918 beaux-arts landmark. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The beaux-arts building, which was completed more than a century ago, was bought for $54 million in 2005 by a partnership of developers led by Savanna. ❋ Craig Karmin (2011)

From its perch at the busiest intersection in town, the theater lent Shamokin a touch of beaux-arts grandeur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On Thursday Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, who is worth $53.5 billion, bought the Duke-Semans mansion, a beaux-arts townhouse directly across from the Met, for $44 million, public records show. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you were rich, you lived in a house with a pompous beaux-arts facade and kept a butler and gave children's parties with spun sugar on the ice cream and little cups of real silver as game prices. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There's not much to distract from the happy ramble in the apartment, a spacious, sparsely furnished pad with soaring ceilings in the Wyoming, a beaux-arts masterpiece where Dwight Eisenhower once lived, not to mention Betty Friedan and George Stephanopoulos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(I was told a dramatic story about employees of the New Orleans Museum of Art taking refuge with their families in the redoubtable beaux-arts pile and being rescued by the National Guard, but apparently little art was lost.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

They will be bused to the wedding site, Astor Courts, a beaux-arts mansion hidden by thick stands of trees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Finally, guests had barely cleared out of the wedding reception when the grand estate where it was held -- Astor Courts, the beaux-arts mansion built for John Jacob Astor IV -- was put on the market for $12. million. ❋ Unknown (2010)