Hastings, Thomas (1860-1929)

US architect. At the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in the early 1880s he met the Brazilian-born John Merven Carrère (1858-1911), with whom he later formed a highly successful New York partnership (1885-1915) that became identified with Beaux-Arts architecture in its public and corporate buildings, houses, and country estates. Their buildings included the Ponce de León Hotel, St Augustine, Florida (1888), and the New York Public Library (1902-11), Manhattan Bridge (1904-11), and the Henry Clay Frick House (1913-14), all in New York. Hastings was the chief designer, favouring the French classical style. Among the many large office buildings dating from the end of his career were the Standard Oil Building, New York (1926). Hastings was born in Mineola, New York.