NAC Chat
NAC Chat
National Arts Club
7 - Architecture - Francis Morrone
32 minutes Posted Oct 24, 2018 at 4:50 pm.
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Steve Kass sits down with Architectural Historian Francis Marrone to discuss the history of the Gramercy Park area and it's illustrious residents including Edith Wharton and Samuel Tilden, who's house the NAC calls home. Marrone was the 2012 recipient of the Arthur Ross Award of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, and a 2016 recipient of the Landmarks Lion Award of the Historic Districts Council. He teaches at NYU and his essays on architecture have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, City Journal, American Arts Quarterly, the New Criterion, Humanities, and the New York Times.