Michael C. Kathrens

Author Q&A Contributor / Writer / United States /

Michael C. Kathrens is an independent scholar specializing in American residential architecture and interior decoration of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the author of Great Houses of New York, 1880–1930 (Acanthus Press, 2005) and Newport Villas: The Revival Styles, 1885–1935 (W.W. Norton, 2009). Kathrens leads walking tours and lectures extensively on American domestic architecture of the Great House era.

Born and raised in suburban Kansas City, Michael Kathrens lived in New York City for 23 years before moving to Newport, Rhode Island, in 2010. He is currently working on a second volume of Great Houses of New York for Acanthus Press.

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