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5 unusual facts about Herter Brothers


Anglo-Japanese style

In the United States some of the glass and silverwork by Louis Comfort Tiffany, textiles and wallpaper by Candace Wheeler, and the furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, Daniel Pabst, Nimura and Sato, and the Herter Brothers (particularly that produced after 1870) shows influence of the Anglo-Japanese style.

Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.

Gilbert wrote to Johnston urging him to make a similar trip, but around that time, Johnston received a job offer from Herter Brothers in New York.

Herter Brothers

The Herters did much of the interior work for the Eldridge Street Synagogue.

Furniture from an early Herter commission survives in Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site

Herter Brothers and A. H. Davenport and Company were subcontractors who executed McKim's interior designs.


Charles W. Clinton

Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue between East 66th and East 68th Street, with interior work by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Alexander Roux, Francis Davis Millet, and the Herter Brothers, 1880


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