The Architecture of Horace Trumbauer: "The Standard, Metropolitan and Authoritative Thing"

Horace Trumbauer (December 28, 1868 - September 18, 1938) was in many ways the most enigmatic architect of America’s “Gilded Age.” Although he left school when he was 14, by the time he was thirty he had built palatial homes for some of the nation’s wealthiest families, and his office would produce more than 800 designs over the next forty years.