Historic Structures Report: New Gallery Complex
Papazian L and Arnold & Scangas Architects. 2014. Historic Structures Report: New Gallery Complex. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center. Denver, Colorado
The New Gallery Complex, the subject of this Historic Structure Report, was designed by John Worthington Ames, a Beaux-Arts-trained architect and trustee of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial. It was built between 1946 and 1948 to provide an exhibition space and appropriate setting for Saint-Gaudens’ sculpture and to provide a gallery for art shows as well. It replaced the Studio of the Caryatids, Saint-Gaudens’ larger working studio which burned in 1944 and which had been serving as the primary exhibition space for Saint-Gaudens’ sculpture. The unusual, Classical Revival style New Gallery Complex includes adaptively re-used outbuildings from the Studio of the Caryatids. The two out-buildings that survived the fire were adapted and remodeled by Ames into exhibition studios. They were joined together by the construction of a new Atrium, styled after a Corinthian peristylium. The blending of formal interior and exterior garden elements of the Atrium continues the motifs favored by Saint-Gaudens in his design approach to the estate and its gardens. The recommended structural improvements, repair and replacement work, and ADA improvements have been evaluated for compliance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. They meet the Standards and would have no adverse effect on the historic resources.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Papazian, Lyssa; Arnold & Scangas Architects
- Date of Issue
- 2014-04-08
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center
- Units
- NER , SAGA
- Keywords
- Augustus Stain-Gaudens, Beaux-Arts, Classical Revival style, peristylium, sculpture, Worthington Ames
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 006533: New Studio (New Gallery)