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Daytonian in Manhattan: Stanford White's Lost 1900 Madison Square Garden Stanford White, Goddess Of The Hunt, New York City Pictures, Steampunk Aesthetic, Penn Station, Entertainment District, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, City Pictures, Square Garden

Madison Square Garden around 1910 -- postcard from author's collection In 1874, as the New York entertainment district cropped up along 23rd Street in the post-Civil War years, P. T. Barnum converted a railroad freight warehouse on Madison Square and 26th Street for larger-than-life open air entertainments. In true Barnum fashion, he called the venue the “Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome.” Not exactly a name that rolled easily off the tongue. William K. Vanderbilt took over the…

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Harry K. Thaw (1871 - 1947) - Find A Grave Photos Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit, Joan Collins, Famous Architects, Gibson Girl, Having An Affair, Square Garden, Madison Square Garden, Madison Square

Crime Figure. He shot and killed architect Stanford White on the roof of Madison Square Garden on the evening of June 25, 1906. The murder was a result of Thaw's jealousy over his wife's (model and showgirl Evelyn Nesbit) relationship with White. After one hung jury, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. The...

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Daytonian in Manhattan: Stanford White's 1893 "The Metropolitan Club" The grand marble staircase in 1951 -- photo from author's collection Robber Barons, Seating Layout, Club Building, American Royals, Stanford White, Marble Staircase, Vintage Nyc, Astoria Ny, Restaurant Seating

photo by Jim Henderson In 1891, every man of high-breeding in New York belonged to at least one of the exclusive gentlemen’s club that dotted the city. That year, however, The New York Times bemoaned changes within the paneled walls of the Union Club–indisputably the most prestigious and elite of all of them. The newspaper lamented, “the youthful element which had crept into the club and which didn’t care a rap for traditions.” Referring to the younger generation of members that had begun to…

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