Projects
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Triumphal Arches and Classicizing Monuments in the Americas
Panel organized for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Mexico City. Kimberly Cassibry (Wellesley College) and Elizabeth R. Macaulay (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Mexico City’s Monument to the Revolution counts among the many classicizing monuments built in the Americas since 1492. While these freestanding arches, columns, and obelisks initially served to…
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Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at the U.S. World’s Fairs, 1893–1915
World’s Fairs are probably the most important modern phenomenon that you’ve never heard about. World’s Fairs were the way people learned about new ideas and products, before there was an internet. The Eiffel Tower made its debut at the Paris Exposition of 1889. The Ferris Wheel appeared at Chicago in 1893. President William McKinley was…
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Archaeological Ambassadors: A History of Archaeological Gifts to New York City
What do an obelisk, a column, a grave marker, and a temple all have in common? They are all archaeological ambassadors. Other nations presented these four extraordinary archaeological monuments and objects to New York as gifts over the last 145 years. Egypt gave Cleopatra’s Needle (now in Central Park) and the Temple of Dendur (now…