Shanghai Hotel, [Shanghai, China] [graphic] : [working drawings] : [Building number] 1139 / Warren & Wetmore, Architects. 1920.

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Shanghai Hotel, [Shanghai, China] [graphic] : [working drawings] : [Building number] 1139 / Warren & Wetmore, Architects. 1920.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77914051

40 sheets : blueprints on paper ; 91.5 x 145.5 cm. (36 x 57 1/4 in.)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Shanghai Hotel (Shanghai, China)

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Warren & Wetmore

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Regarding the Aeolian Hall, the following information can be found in the 1988 AIA Guide to New York City: "City University Graduate Center, CUNY/originally Aeolian Hall . . . 1912. Warren & Wetmore. Redesigned, 1970, Carl J. Petrilli & Assocs. What was once a concert hall and then a five-and-ten is now a bluestone-floored pedestrian arcade forming an elegant shortcut between 42nd and 43rd Streets. . . . George Gershwin introduced Rhapsody in Blue in Aeolian Hall with Paul Whiteman's Orc...

Wetmore, Charles D., 1867-1941

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Warren, Whitney, 1864-1943

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Whitney Warren was a New York architect. He studied in Paris at the Atliers of the Ecole des Beaux Arts and returned to NYC in 1896 to found the firm Warren & Wetmore. Two of the firm's major works were the Grand Central Terminal and the Biltmore Hotel, both in New York City. Warren was also a co-founder of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and served as director for many years. From the description of Whitney Warren papers, 1864-1943. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 6...