[2] Hastings abandoned his college preparation courses to work with the chief designer at Herter Brothers, the premier New York furnishers and decorators.

They were also instrumental in creating the profession of urban planning, with Carrére's influential designs for Cleveland, Hartford and Atlantic City.

Their varied work included the Manhattan Bridge (1899), the House and Senate Office Buildings in Washington, and Blairsden, and the C. Ledyard Blair estate in Peapack, New Jersey (1896).

[3] After Carrère's death in 1911, Hastings went on to design the Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the Unknowns and the Henry Clay Frick House on Fifth Avenue, as well as residences for such distinguished names as Guggenheim, duPont, Harriman, even a 'poultry cottage' for William K. Vanderbilt.

[This quote needs a citation] He felt a zoning law should have been passed to limit their height to a maximum of eight stories as has been done successfully in Paris.