Stanford White’s Murder and the “The Trial of the Century”
…accused White of ruining Nesbit, and he may have even focused his attention on her because of her previous relationship with White. Thaw believed White had hired people to kill…
Read More…accused White of ruining Nesbit, and he may have even focused his attention on her because of her previous relationship with White. Thaw believed White had hired people to kill…
Read More…as Beaux Arts architect Stanford White and outsider chronicler Diane Arbus lived next door to each other in the heart of the district. Stanford White (l.), Daine Arbus Stanford White…
Read MorePurchase the Book! 20% off with Code FALL20 at Checkout Nothing defines Stanford White, a partner in the legendary architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, and the master of…
Read More…unassuming buildings with unexpected history. Yet how unusual to see them hired to do repair work on a building after it suffered fire damage. Stanford White was listed as project…
Read MoreOn January 30, 1968, the Velvet Underground released their second studio album, White Light/White Heat. Following the band’s first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, released in 1967, the band…
Read More…couple more successful submissions by White to the magazine, its literary editor, Katharine Angell recommended to editor-in-chief and founder Harold Ross that White be hired as a staff writer. White…
Read MoreWhite Horse Tavern and Dylan Thomas. Photo courtesy of newyork.com. On Wednesday, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will be hosting a walking tour on Dylan Thomas that will culminate…
Read MoreWhen Architecture Could Fashion a Nation: A Lecture on the Architecture of McKim, Mead & White by Professor Mosette Broderick As America matured in the mid 19th century, the architectural…
Read MoreInez Milholland, wearing a white cape while seated on white horse, at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913. (Credit: F A Archive/REX/Shutterstock) The 19th Amendment to…
Read More…Village Preservation shows that the city’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan will make these neighborhoods richer, whiter, and more expensive to live in than they are now, and likely create significantly less…
Read More…Museum. But it used to have a home in the White House. Here’s the story of how Christopher Street and Greenwich Village made it into the nation’s First Home. In 1933,…
Read More101-103 Thompson Street Thinking of white glazed brick buildings can conjure images of boxy post-war high rises on the Upper East Side, but almost fifty years before they came into…
Read More…promoting equity, diversity, and affordability. A study produced by Village Preservation shows just how untrue that is. Analysis shows it would make the neighborhood richer, whiter, and more expensive than…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read MoreProfessional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following 9/11….
Posted September 8, 2021
Read MorePlan would likely only create 1/5 of projected Affordable Housing, push out Asian American and lower income residents would likely destroy more Affordable Housing than it creates….
Read MoreFolk musician David Rosario founded the band Lower East Side, which commonly performed in the streets of downtown New York City. He was known as “David Peel” in reference to…
Posted March 3, 2021
Read MoreFolk musician David Rosario founded the band Lower East Side, which commonly performed in the streets of downtown New York City. He was known as “David Peel” in reference to…
Posted March 3, 2021
Read MoreIn the months following the destruction of the World Trade Center and on each anniversary of 9/11, crowds gathered at the West Side Highway and Christopher Street to support the…
Posted August 19, 2021
Read MoreProfessional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following 9/11….
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…completed in 1900 and designed by Stanford White of the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, which also designed Columbia University and Penn Station, among many other great New York…
Read More…1906 after Pittsburgh millionaire Henry Thaw shot society starchitect Stanford White in front of a crowd of hundreds while dining on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden (then located on…
Read More…the Columbia School of the Arts and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Judson Memorial Church Beyond the formal classical facade of Judson Memorial Church, built by Stanford White…
Read More…market-rate units, this will result in buildings which are 70% white, 10.8% Asian, 5% Hispanic and 9.8% black – a higher percentage white and black than the 7 census tracts…
Read MoreThe New York Public Library Tompkins Square Branch, courtesy of HDC As part of our continuing Landmarks50 celebration, and in honor of Stanford White’s birthday today (he would be a…
Read More…an all-white jury. Those sentences had resulted from bloody riots in Arkansas in 1919 precipitated by a white mob attacking a mass meeting of black farmers trying to organize a…
Read More…the bill and brought on Stanford White, of the famous firm of McKim, Mead, and White, to create the design. The arch spanned 5th Avenue just north of Washington Square….
Read More…arch in the European tradition. He convinced his well-heeled neighbors to help foot the bill, and brought on Stanford White, of the renowned firm of McKim, Mead, and White, to…
Read More…White, 16 East 8th Street and 112 West 13th Street Elwyn Brooks White famed author of the children’s novels Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web lived in Greenwich Village from the mid-1920s until 1935. Better…
Read More…American men sentenced to death and 67 to long prison terms by an all-white jury. Those sentences had resulted from bloody riots in Arkansas in 1919 precipitated by a white mob…
Read More…red brick townhouses built in the Greek Revival style drew wealthy members of society. The crowning addition to this urban plaza was the triumphal marble arch designed by Stanford White….
Read More…square, began campaigning to erect a temporary triumphal arch in the European tradition. He convinced his well-heeled neighbors to help foot the bill, and brought on Stanford White of the…
Read More…all men are created equal, so all white and black men could vote, right? Unfortunately, no. Not even all white men could vote. It depended on the state, but the…
Read More…6. White Horse Tavern, 567 Hudson Street Via Flickr cc While perhaps most famous as a hang-out for the great literary minds of the mid-20th century, including Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin,…
Read More…White Ovington, William English Walling, Bishop Alexander Walters, Rev. William Henry Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells, among others, the new organization’s first public meeting was held a few…
Read More…white immigrant family, she [Larsen] had no entrée into the world of the blues or of the black church. If she could never be white like her mother and sister,…
Read More…Broadway musical called John Henry alongside fellow activists Paul Robeson and Josh White. White put together a group called “Josh White and the Carolinians” and asked Rustin to be a…
Read More…market rate units, this will result in buildings which are 70% white, 10.8% Asian, 5% Hispanic and 9.8% black – a higher percentage white and black than the 7 census…
Read More…by renowned architect Stanford White and built in 1890-1892. It replaced an earlier, temporary privately-funded arch, made of plaster and wood, that was erected in 1889 to commemorate the centenary of…
Read More…limestone, and terra-cotta façade of Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South, designed by Stanford White, of McKim, Mead, & White and completed in 1893, remains defiantly and elegantly…
Read More…the 1906 murder of architect Stanford White, who had an affair with his wife, chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit (that crime was immortalized in E.L. Doctorow’s novel “Ragtime”). Strikers from the…
Read More…1839-1846. The listing also details a remodeling of the interior from 1885-1889, undertaken by Stanford White of McKim, Mead, & White. This remodeling lightened the space considerably, removing galleries on…
Read More…Square Arch was dedicated. The above image shows what the arch looked like that year. Designed by Stanford White of McKim, Meade & White, the arch has become one of…
Read More…for AIDS patients. The church sanctuary (designed by Stanford White), campanile tower, and Judson Hall were designated landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966 and added…
Read More…his father. Fish worked for the Illinois Central Railroad until 1906. He had a large home at 19 Gramercy Park South, with an addition designed by Stanford White, and later…
Read More…Gothic Revival style, with an interior remodeled by Stanford White from 1885-89. Both churches are active and flourishing today. If you are interested in learning more about GVSHP’s archive and…
Read More…which investigated the scandalous murder of architect Stanford White (East Villager and architect of a firm that designed some of our neighborhoods’ finest structures), took place at the Jefferson Market…
Read More…the Schomburg Center (video) (event description) Book Talk: Stanford White in Detail Focusing on White’s iconic designs and builds, no one could resist the decorative facades and interiors! (video) (event…
Read More…Stanford White of McKim Mead & White considerably lightened the interior space, removing galleries on the north and south sides, adding stained-glass windows, and installing a mural called “The Ascension…
Read More…Arch. www.washingtonsquarenyc.org According to the New York City Parks Department, the “marble Washington Arch, designed by noted architect Stanford White, was built between 1890-1892 and replaced a wooden arch erected…
Read More…Street. ca. 2011 image via Wikipedia. The lot on Houston Street is now the site of the Cable Building. Built 1892-94, the Cable Building was designed by Stanford White of…
Read More…off-white color instead of the current bright white and that the art wall exclude the word ‚Äúbaby‚Äù from its verbage since that would be advertising. 05/07/2019 – At today’s LPC…
Read More…discrimination. While a former slave became a sexton and Varick rose to the level of deacon, the white-run congregation forced the black congregants to the back of the church. As…
Read More…ale. You may order it either dark or light. White Horse Tavern 567 Hudson Street The White Horse Tavern © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah This West Village haunt opened…
Read More…latter group consisted of both prominent African-American institutions and individuals (mostly associated with churches) who organized economically, politically, and socially against slavery, and whites who ranged from peaceful Quaker opponents…
Read More…large mid-century white-brick apartment building at 2 Fifth Avenue, just north Washington Square Park. Although decidedly more modern than the historic nineteenth century townhouses in the area, the application to…
Read More…Doors playing with a Joshua Light Show display behind them. Photo care of Joshua White It was a place to catch an amazing concert: the early show was rocking, the…
Read More…landscape. The World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago unleashed the “City Beautiful” or “White City” movement in America, and suddenly grand, neo-Classical or Beaux Arts buildings made of crisp…
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