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eagerly and diligently and ravenously and remorselessly hunting young girls to their destruction. These facts have been well known in New York for many years, but they have never been openly proclaimed until now. On the witness-stand, in the hearing of a court room crowded with men, the girl told in
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was being performed at the theatre. During the show's finale, "I Could Love A Million Girls", Thaw approached White, produced a pistol, said, "You've ruined my wife", and fired three shots at White from two feet away. He hit White twice in the face and once in his upper left shoulder, killing him
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Since his death White has been described as a satyr. To answer this by saying that he was a great architect is not to answer at all...He admired a beautiful woman as he admired every other beautiful thing God has given us; and his delight over one was as keen, as boyish, as grateful over any
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his money and his considerable charm, who would feel that they had little choice but to let him take over their lives. There are indications that
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Square Garden, Stanford White was shot from behind a crazed profligate whose great wealth was used to besmirch his victim's memory during the series of notorious trials that ensued." (In fact, White was shot in the face, from directly in front of him, not from behind.)
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In the division of projects within the firm, the sociable and gregarious White landed the most commissions for private houses. His fluent draftsmanship helped persuade clients who were not attuned to a floorplan. He could express the mood of a building he was designing.
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Renaissance library table. His design for elaborate picture framing, the Stanford White frame, still bears his name today. Outgoing and social, he had a large circle of friends and acquaintances, many of whom became clients. White had a major influence in the
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design in
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American mansion with irrelevant plunder." Newspaper accounts drew from the trial transcripts to describe White as "a sybarite of debauchery, a man who abandoned lofty enterprises for vicious revels."
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the minutest detail the history of White's pursuit of her, even down to the particulars of his atrocious victory—a victory whose particulars might well be said to be unprintable...
2507:, The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives. Pdf scan of inventory of works of art at Box Hill, the former Stanford White estate in Long Island, completed in 1942.
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2096:Uruburu, pp. 279, 282
2000:Lessard, Suzannah. (1996)
1926:Lessard, Suzannah. (1996)
1462:Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
1433:(1891–1895), New York City
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1142:"The Trial of the Century"
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919:He designed and decorated
544:United States Bicentennial
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2388:, Victor Gollancz, 1963.
2115:Kuehn, Henry H. (2017).
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424:New York Herald Building
323:Richardsonian Romanesque
194:Rhode Island State House
186:Savoyard Centre, Detroit
181:New York Herald Building
171:Madison Square Garden II
96:New York, New York, U.S.
2566:American murder victims
2434:, Julian Messner, 1934.
2370:Collins, Frederick L.,
1668:"Madison Square Garden"
1531:McKim, Mead & White
1412:Bronx Community College
1342:In the 2022 HBO series
1332:La fille coupée en deux
1138:William Randolph Hearst
985:, a dealer in antiques.
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810:and "Four Chimneys" in
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471:Bronx Community College
381:William Rutherford Mead
334:William Rutherford Mead
319:Henry Hobson Richardson
278:Early life and training
233:McKim, Mead & White
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252:Madison Square Garden
2425:The Story of My Life
2193:Uruburu, pp. 306–307
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2072:Uruburu, p. 181
1967:Twain, Mark. (2013)
1523:Claire Nicolas White
1289:, based on the novel
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385:Charles Follen McKim
363:, was born in 1887.
361:Lawrence Grant White
330:Charles Follen McKim
286:in 1853, the son of
245:American Renaissance
140:Lawrence Grant White
115:Bessie Springs Smith
2391:Lessard, Suzannah,
2327:on February 2, 2022
2277:Samuel French, Inc.
2084:A Night to Remember
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1801:on December 1, 2007
1683:Gray, Christopher.
1519:Columbia University
1477:Payne Whitney House
1416:New York University
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1099:Mam'zelle Champagne
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889:Scribner's Magazine
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500:Baltimore, Maryland
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451:Lambs Club Building
288:Richard Grant White
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149:Alexina Black Mease
2448:, Riverhead, 2008.
2427:, John Long, 1914.
2416:Samuels, Charles,
2384:Langford, Gerald,
2321:Town & Country
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1906:The New York Times
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1582:The New York Times
1561:The New York Times
1494:(1902), Albany, NY
1460:Clubhouse (1892),
1295:Dementia Americana
1278:Elizabeth McGovern
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