Carr re and Hastings used the plan of Vernon Court for the 1913 Frick Mansion on Fifth Avenue that now houses the Frick Collection and Art Reference Library. The design of the garden houses was inspired by those built for Louis XIV at Versailles. The adjacent property, Stoneacre, laid out in 1884 by the first American landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, will be restored as a park dedicated to Olmsted and honoring architects whose work can be found in Newport, including Peter Harrison, H.H. Richardson, Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, Horace Trumbauer, and, of course, Carr re and Hastings. It will also include a replica of an arch designed by Louis Kahn for the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, the Harvard Business School of Asia. Laurence thinks Kahn was the greatest architect of the second half of the 20th century.
People involved in museums often become art dealers when they retire.
Judy went in the reverse direction. Judy has had a good deal of experience putting on art shows. In the early 1990's she was the first to take illustration art on world tours, organizing exhibitions in Paris, Rome, and Tokyo. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963 with a major in art history and American civilization and completing a master's program in education in 1964, Judy began buying illustration art at a time when few people paid any attention to it. She restored the paintings, framed them, and sold them, first at Sanford Smith's Fall Antiques Shows at the Pier, and from her house near Philadelphia.