MET OPENS NEW PERIOD ROOM

The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently opened a new period room in its American Wing.

The room, in the Gothic Revival style, is a library from a house built in 1859 in Newburgh, N.Y. The Gothic Revival, like the Greek and Renaissance revivals, was one of the many fashionable mid-19th Century styles that borrowed architectural ideas from earlier “romantic” times.

Built for a bank president, Frederick Deming, the house was designed by Frederick C. Withers.