![]() ![]() There have been four versions of the “Garden” including White’s version, which was in the beaux-arts style with a roof top restaurant/theater and a large, Moorish-like corner tower that was, for a short period of time, the tallest structure in New York City. ![]() He was the designer for the second Madison Square Garden, numerous residential mansions, and private clubs for the very rich in Manhattan, Newport and elsewhere. Stanford White was a partner in McKim, Mead and White, a prominent New York architectural firm at the turn of the twentieth century. Įvelyn Nesbit, photo from Cosmopolitan Mag., Cir 1901 Thus, it is being retold in this condensed form. It was broadly disseminated during the first half of the twentieth century, but today it is almost unknown by the younger generation of architects. Story No.1 for the blog,, copyrighted © by dale.r.ellickson, 2018 This story has been told many times in different ways including at least two movies: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) and Ragtime (1981). 1906 – Crime of the Century “I shot the wrong architect,” said Harry K. ![]()
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