Henry Beaumont Herts

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The Lyceum Theater in New York

Henry Beaumont Herts (* 1871 in New York City ; † 1933 ) was an American architect.

life and work

Herts studied at Columbia University , which he left without a degree. He also apprenticed to Bruce Price and studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and at the universities in Rome and Heidelberg.

In 1900 he founded the Herts & Tallant office with Hugh Tallant (1870–1952), who had also studied in Paris , which quickly became known for its theaters. Tallant was responsible for the artistic designs and developed into a specialist in room acoustics , while Herts was responsible for the technical implementation and economic issues. The New Amsterdam Theater in New York was her first major success in 1903, followed by the Fulton Theater (later Helen Hayes Theater, demolished 1982), the Gaiety Theater (demolished 1982), the Liberty Theater (closed 1933), the Lyceum Theater , the New German Theater and the Brooklyn Academy of Music . Herts perfected the cantilever construction, which made it possible to build spectator stands without pillars that obstruct the view.

The business partnership with Tallant ended in 1911. Herts and his assistant Herbert J. Krapp built the Booth Theater , the adjacent Shubert Theater and the Longacre Theater . In 1915, Krapp left the office.

Herts also designed the Guggenheim family mausoleum in Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn.

In 1928, Herts retired for health reasons. He died in 1933.

His estate is in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Hugh Tallant: Hints on architectural acoustics , in: The Brickbuilder, vol. XIX, from No. 5 (May 1910), pp. 111–228 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Ken Bloom: Broadway. Its History, People, and Places. To Encyclopedia . Taylor & Francis, 2004, pp. 241-242
personal data
SURNAME Herts, Henry Beaumont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 1933