Moses specified costly luxury facing materials for every Jones Beach structure

Evidence

Moses decided himself how he wanted the bathhouses faced. He was determined that the stone and brick of the façades would blend in perfectly with the beach on which they stood. One of the samples brought to him was obviously the perfect type of stone: Ohio sandstone was gray with just enough tinges of tan and blue to catch the colors of sand and sea. Selecting the brick was harder. Nothing seemed exactly right. Then, one day, passing the Barbizon Hotel on East Sixty-third Street, he noticed that it was faced with a random pattern of beige, brown and brownish-red that would catch the color of the sand and complement it. He decided that, to give the Jones Beach development unity, every structure of any size built there would be faced with Ohio sandstone and Barbizon brick. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 982

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moses personally dictated Jones Beach’s design, overriding famous hired architects — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 980; Moses envisioned Jones Beach as a blank canvas requiring only people to fill it — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 717; Moses built monumental stone bathhouses to serve the masses at public beaches — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 977

Broader Connections

• Moses built monumental stone bathhouses to serve the masses at public beaches #exemplifies (0.88) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 977
• Moses envisioned Jones Beach as a blank canvas requiring only people to fill it #complicates (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 717