American Architectural Elements

A 19th Century Victorian carrara marble mantel keystone with a carved scallop shell. This is a beautiful antique carved marble fireplace mantel keystone, featuring a scallop shell design. These keystones were often the decorative centerpiece of Victorian-era fireplaces and reflect the intricate craftsmanship of the 19th century. This is one of the best carved marble keystones...

1960s Vintage Southwestern Door Handle Handsets Brass Aztec Mayan Green Patina and Gold Accent in the Manner Of Pepe Mendoza. Listing 1 Handset At A Time. These Beautiful Handsets...

Model Sunburst Atomic Made to order by History Never Repeats LLC by Aaron Saxton, with image provided of other models within other listings. If you wish the look but do not require us to build the door, you can purchase a kit from us in either stainless steel or brass (see last images). Custom produced here in the United States. 84" tall x 72" is the common measurement but we can produce in any size, single or double. The video shows a door with hardware and a smooth textured paint that highlights what is possible for your door with a custom paint selected by the client and produced by Benjamin Moore using Aura Exterior. The customer also had us install a peephole as well and we incorporated this into the vertical bar. High quality construction with the best hinges, woods and hardware that can be used. All hand made. The key to the doors is the use of old Appalachian oaks to produce hard and strong door jambs with our material sourced through local yards and the woods all selected. Critical to a quality door is the true Stave Lumber Core construction which is as good as a wood door can be; strong and resistant to movement using either oak, poplar or pine depending upon the environment. Price includes the entire assembly with door jamb, weather stripping, threshold, doors, starburst to one side of doors, deadbolt, keyed entry knobs...

A rare and important hand painted plaster decorative molding fragment, by Louis H. Sullivan (American, 1856-1924), from the interior of the Chicago Stock Exchange, circa 1893-1894. ...

Fun antique architectural elements from carnival carousel or funhouse ride. Layers of beautiful original park paint. Great scale for wall art or to act as a frame for something else. Unique and original fairground art!

Presenting a gorgeous set of 3 Art Deco glass door handles with plates. Amazingly complete set! Probably made in the US circa 1925-30. These ar...

Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design by Esther da Costa Meyer. Published by Yale / The Jewish Museum, New York, 2016. 1st Ed hardcover exhibition catalog (Jewish Museum Nov...

Pair of French gold gilt console tables Murray's Iron Works manner of G. Poillerat. Classic design, wonderful gold gilding, restored wood tops,...

While best known for his architectural practice—which played integral roles in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, re-imagining of the Ritz in Paris, and designing the interior...

A Pictorial History Of Architecture In America by G. E. Kidder Smith. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1976, 1976Published by American Academy of Arts and American ...

Fabulous stained glass windows, 6 available, one posted separately in this listing. Rainbow Studios of Nyack NY did them in the mid sixties for a home i...

A hand wrought iron stair rail. Estimate to date from early 20th century. Old green paint with nice patina. Please see images for detailed measurements. 28.63 inches high. 54 inches...

An antique cast iron column pedestal base with acanthus leaf decoration and fluted column. Use it to support an indoor or outdoor sculpture t...

Beautiful antique stained glass arch transom window in a new wood frame. Late 19th century window salvaged from an estate outside Pittsburgh PA. This is a combination window with both stained and beveled glass panels This is one of three stained glass transom windows...

Antique Architectural Corinthian Capital - glazed cast ceramic composition - Canada or United States - late 19th century. Good antiq...

A large scaled and beautifully constructed custom copper flue or hood made of standing seam tapered panels having a warm patina.

Early 20th century antique stained glass window with Victorian dolphins on either side of a draped covered urn. Its a nice combination of stained gla...

The beautiful design on this wall barometer by Taylor in patinated brass and glass can be hung on the wall or table top.

The American Country House by Clive Aslet. Yale University Press, 1990. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This great book describes the great country houses that were built with Ame...

Large Mid-Century six-arm iron chandelier, powder-coated in bright sunshine-yellow paint. Recently rewired, UL standardized.

Antique cast iron Doorstops by Hubley in original paint. No breaks or cracks in excellent vintage condition with minimal wear to the paint....

Unused yellow Art Deco bakelite door/drawer Pulls with center chrome strip, Set of 19. If you are redoing your kitchen in a 30s or 40s motif or simply looking for a vintage handle/pu...

A gorgeous cast brass Quohog clam door knocker, perfect for your Nantucket, Cape, or Hamptons home! This piece was designed by Michael Healy, an accomplished Rhode Island artisan. Mi...

3 American Victorian mahogany framed leaded glass windows with torch design (PRICED EACH)

Traces of the original paint still remain on this unusual architectural element. The element also features a sunburst design. Hung over a bed or in a living room setting this element...

Splendours of the East Temples Tombs Palaces and Fortresses of Asia by Mortimer Wheeler. Spring Pub., London, New York, 1970. Hardcover with dust jacket. 288 pages; illustrated with ...

In 1957 the Pomona Tile Manufacturing Company hired five designers—Saul Bass, Paul Laszlo, Dorothy Liebes, Paul McCobb, and Millard Sheets—to design tiles ...

American hanging Apothecary show globe with a mounted cast iron painted and gilded eagle. Globe was filled with a colorful green or red liquid to...

Windows on the Past: Four Centuries of New England Homes by Jane Nylander. Published by Bulfinch Press/ Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2000. Stated 1st Ed...

PAIR of American Mission stripped pine framed doors with clear and colored leaded glass panels (PRICED AS PAIR). One small green pane is broken on one door, one clear pane is cracke...

Funky six legs foot stool made of hand carved wood in French style newly upholster with beautiful geometric motif fine French cotton , and decorative trimming .

A set of 29 beautiful mid-century drawer pulls featuring dark aged brass with elegant steeple tips and a porcelain white colored Bakelite center. Due to age, some may have a browner ...

19th Century American white painted fireplace mantle with strong molding and handsome detailing. Dimensions of opening: 32.45" w x 29.13" h

An evocative late 19th-century Neoclassical architectural fragment in the form of an Ionic column capital, cast in concrete and plaster with a beautifully weathered white finish. The...

Fabulous set of 8 architectural brackets in carved wood. Acanthus leaves carved into each bracket. Painted and in need of cleaning and possibly a new paint job. Two have an original...

Take a look at this fantastic double sided early 19th or late 18th century wooden trade sign with original wrought Iron bracket. Came out of a Hudso...

Elegant wall hanging made of hand-forged and twisted iron pieces salvaged from the Mizner Era of Palm beach Florida estate ,great attractive wall decoration. . Treated for rust preve...

Antique pair of marble corbels in Acanthus Leaf Pattern. This pair is made from solid marble, which have been hand carved with the architectural element of ornate scrolling. The corb...

Journey: The Life and Times of an American Architect by Alan Wanzenberg, Signed and inscribed Stated Pointed Leaf Press 2013. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as published. With a preface by prominent philanthropist, art collector, curator, and Wanzenberg's friend, Beth Rudin DeWoody. Featuring stunning, never-before-published images of Wanzenberg's projects by world-renowned photographer William Abranowicz. This is the first-ever monograph to chronicle the trajectory, work, inspirations, and motivations of esteemed New York architect and interior designer Alan Wanzenberg. For Wanzenberg, designing is nothing short of an intellectual process. With sensitivity to place and a deep understanding of design history, Journey showcases his original takes on archetypical styles, including American Arts & Crafts, Shaker, French Art Deco, and American Farmhouse. The result is always a seamlessly developed, beautifully understated home that is a perfect amalgamation of the client's taste and the project's context. Become inspired by the integral influences and experiences that comprise Wanzenberg's journey, all of which have led him to become the distinctive, high-profile, and well-accomplished designer that he is today. Esteemed New York architect and interior designer Alan Wanzenberg shares his intimate story and brilliantly crafted projects...

An extraordinary early 20th-century railroad wrench, hand forged from iron on a monumental scale and retaining a deeply weathered, dark surface. Its unusually long, subtly curved sha...

Stunning Mid-Century Modern Planter in the style of Finn Juhl. Terracotta with paint finish. Needs to be restored or used in current condition. We can help.

Pair of 1940s hammered brass door hinge straps by William Spencer and Victorian brass door knocker. The set was salvaged from the front door of a Bucks County farmhouse estate in New...

Gilt lion ring handled bridle hitch. Antique metal lion equestrian ring handle mask for hitching horses. American 19th century Dimensions: 4.75" diameter x 2.5” deep ; 6” to bottom...

Clock frame from demolished NYC building, circa 1910. Its 6-foot frame, forged in iron, roman numerals hammered out on an anvil, is more than a century old, many of those years spent...

A most charming large original antique American Victorian era architectural decorative building element. 19th century, United States, salvaged from a home in Western New York, an ar...

Art Nouveau Architecture by Frank Russell. Arch Cape Press, NY, 1986. Hardcover with dust jacket. With 68 color and 500 black and white illustrations. Architects of the fin de siècle (end of the century) organized by country, each chapter written by a well-known authority in the field. The introduction, by Roger-Henri Guerrand; Great Britain: arts and crafts and art nouveau, by Tim Benton; Spain: moderismo in Catalonia, by Tim Benton; Belgium: red steel and blue aesthetic, by Maurice Culot; France: Viollet-le-Duc to Tony Garnier: the passion of rationalism, by Francois Loyer; Holland: building towards an ideal: progressive architecture in Holland, by Richard Padovan; Switzerland: the temperate presence of art nouveau, by Jacques Gubler; Germany: Judgendstil: the early morning of the modern movement, by Ian Latham; Italy: liberty architecture in Italy, by Ezio Godoli; Czechoslovakia: the secession in Eastern Europe, by Anna Masarykova; Austria: to the limits of a language: Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann, by Ezio Godoli; USA: Louis Sullivan, Greene and Greene...

The Magnificent Builders and Their Dream Houses by Joseph Thorndike. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co. Inc., 1978. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. An intimate look at the most fantastic private homes in the world. With very good descriptions of the houses, palaces, chateaux, as well as old Roman imperial villas, a modern cave home, a luxury Pullman railroad...

Industrial conveyor belt, room screen, made of pine wood slats connected by riveted leather straps. Circa 1940s. We imagine this belt was used during the war years (1941-45) and may ...

Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light MOMA Mar 10–Jun 24, 2013 Exhibition Catalog. New York Museum of Modern Art 2012. Signed by the author, Barry Bergdoll, 1st Ed hardcover wi...

These cast iron fragments are all that remains from an architectural masterpiece.

Rare Lucite and aluminum folding wall divider designed by Charles Hollis Jones. The wall divider is a tri-fold panel screen, it has three partitions each 12" Wide and 60" Tall. This ...

Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design by Robert Jensen and Patricia Conway. Clarkson N. Potter, NY, 1982. Stated 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Forewor...

Spectacular set of 6 stained glass window panels by Rainbow Studios NY. This listing is for one panel. All other panels are listed separately. Amazing c...

American Charleston cast iron lyre boot scrape resting on a oval scalloped edge base, Early 19th century.

Spectacular cast brass, or bronze, three arm wall appliqué, probably from a bank, public building, or other commercial building. The sconce is in exception...

Interesting set of three plastic panels, they are a mid century reinterpretation of an earlier leaded glass form. These were probably set in wood frames originally, now that they are...

Vintage gold cabinet hardware knobs or drawer pulls in a beautiful gold. These round knobs are circular in shape, and flat on the top with concentric cir...

Victorian over-door architectural element in distressed old paint. Wired on verso for hanging on a wall or simply place on top of a tallboy. From a Beacon Hill, Boston townhouse.

A pair of turned and carved oak architectural elements in the form od swaged urns with handles atop turned socles and set on square oak plinths with molded top edges. Each urn topped...

This rarely available Arts & Crafts-period glazed tile features a stag standing on the lakeshore against a mountain backdrop. Its more-than-foot-long size makes it ideal for plac...