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Montgomery Schuyler
1843–1914
A sharp-eyed voice of America’s Gilded Age, this journalist and critic helped shape how readers thought about architecture, art, literature, and music. He is especially remembered for making serious architectural criticism lively and accessible.
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American Architecture: Studies
by Montgomery Schuyler
About the author
Born in Ithaca, New York, on August 19, 1843, Montgomery Schuyler became a prominent critic, journalist, and editorial writer in New York City. He worked in journalism for more than forty years and is chiefly remembered as an influential architecture critic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Schuyler wrote not only about buildings, but also about art, literature, and music. Sources consulted during this search describe him as an important voice of the Gilded Age, and Architectural Record notes that he was among the founders of the magazine in 1891. His architectural writing was later collected in books such as American Architecture: Studies, which helped preserve his clear, forceful opinions for later readers.
He died in New Rochelle, New York, on July 16, 1914. A suitable portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources retrieved here, so no profile image is included.