This is one of the few
surviving Herter Brothers interiors in the country, but one of five in
the Armory. Herter Brothers was a top cabinet-making and interior
design firm in the mid-19th century and designed the Fifth Avenue
mansion of William H. Vanderbilt (now demolished). This room
still retains the original painted surfaces and magnificent mahogany
woodwork. Poor alterations in the 1930s and water infiltration
in the early 1990s caused significant damage but the room was
magnificently restored in 2013 and is now mainly used for recitals.
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Originally designed
by Herter Brothers, this room was substantially redecorated in the
1930s and 40s, including extensive additions to the original French
black walnut wainscoting and overpainting the original Pompeiian
red walls and light blue ceiling. The room was further altered to
accommodate two important portraits, one of George Washington
by Rembrandt Peale and another of Marquis de Lafayette presented
by the French government
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Designed by Pottier
& Stymus in the Renaissance Revival style. The room’s original
floral and geometric stencilwork at the wainscoting and frieze
has recently been revealed.
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The second room at the Armory designed by
Louis C. Tiffany, Associated Artists with Stanford White.This room
is largely thought to be White’s design except for the windows and
lighting fixtures by Tiffany. It features a magnificent basketweave
barrel vault originally painted salmon color with silvered discs.
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(originally a ladies reception room)
One of three rooms by Herter Brothers on the first floor, but the
only one in which they did not design the woodwork (which was
completed by Alexander Roux and Co.). The hearth is surrounded
by Minton art tiles depicting Arthurian legends after Tennyson.
The original Herter Brothers stencilwork was overpainted in the
20th century. The room was dedicated to Mary Divver, an orphan
adopted by the Regiment in the 1850s.
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This and the Library next
door are the only fully extant interiors by Louis C. Tiffany,
Associated Artists in the world. They were executed in 1880
by Associated Artists, a cooperative firm of artists led by
Tiffany working with Samuel Colman, Lockwood de Forest
and Candace Wheeler with consulting architect Stanford White
and artists George Yewell and Francis D. Millet. The Veterans
Room has been described as “Greek, Moresque, and Celtic
with a dash of the Egyptian, the Persian and the Japanese.”
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