Renaissance Revival

I stopped by my local library recently — the Lincoln Heights branch, housed in the beautiful Italian Renaissance Revival building funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1916 — which was filled with older Angelenos quietly reading or on the computer.

I stopped by my local library recently — the Lincoln Heights Branch, housed in the beautiful Italian Renaissance Revival building funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1916 — which was filled with older Angelenos quietly reading or on the computer.

After the original Jenners building was destroyed by a fire in 1892, architect William Hamilton Beattie designed the current building on Princes Street in the Victorian renaissance revival style.

The focal point was the baronial great hall, two stories in height and an essentially Renaissance Revival setting, with a towering stained-glass window of a peacock in a garden by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

His first work to sell at auction, “Linden Blvd Jazz Radio” — depicting the facade of a Brooklyn French Renaissance Revival building that nods to Edward Hopper’s “Early Sunday Morning” — sold at Phillips in 2021 for $163,800, more than triple the high estimate.