Germany at the Second Battle of the Marne, finally completed in 1932 after Hastings' death. Hastings was a founding member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, serving from 1910 to 1917. In 1906, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1909. Hastings outlived the Beaux-Arts world. Though he dressed up the Manhattan Bridge in a Beaux-Arts skin and helped clad conservative office buildings in Roman masonry, he denounced skyscrapers as "bad in style, definitely bad for city traffic and the health of the citizenry". 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. Gallery Notes References David Nolan, Fifty Feet in Paradise: The Booming of Florida (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984). Mark Alan Hewitt, Kate Lemos, William Morrison, Charles Warren. Carrére and Hastings, Architects. 2 vols. (New York, Acanthus Press: 2006). External links Carrère & Hastings Digital Collection, with over 200 drawings for the Ponce de Leon Hotel (now Flagler College), the Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, and select others Descendants of Thomas Hastings website Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook 1860 births 1929 deaths American Presbyterians Architects from New York City Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Fellows of the American Institute of Architects Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters