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A TIME WHEN THE CITY WAS FULL OF
>> IT'S AN AGE OF TREMENDOUS
AMOUNT OF OSTENTATION.
>> THIS ARCHITECT AND TASTEMAKER
AS BEAUTIFUL AS ANY EUROPEAN
CAPITAL.
NAMES IN NEW YORK SOCIETY.
>> THEY WERE THE RICHEST AND
MOST POWERFUL OF THE POLITICAL
IN NEW YORK BANKING.
THERE WASN'T A PARTY HE DIDN'T
IF THERE WAS AN OPENING AT THE
OPERA, HE WAS THERE.
>> A SHOWMAN WHO GAVE US A GREAT
PLEASURE PALACE.
>> THIS WAS A COMPLETELY
ORIGINAL BUILDING.
>> STANFORD WHITE WAS ONE OF
AMERICA'S GREATEST ARCHITECTS.
>> TREASURES OF NEW YORK
>>> AND NOW, HERE'S YOUR HOST,
>> HE WAS KNOWN NOT ONLY FOR HIS
INCIDENTALLY MURDER.
AND SO THE QUESTION WOULD BE WHO
IS STANFORD WHITE?
I'M SURE YOU DIDN'T SAY WHO IS
THE NEXT HOUR.
THIS IS A TRULY GREAT AMERICAN
WORK, DEDICATION TO GOALS.
RICHNESS OF PERSONALITY.
MANY COMPELLING STORIES.
WE WON'T OMIT THE PART ABOUT
THAN LIFE CITIZEN OF AMERICA AND
A STORY WELL WORTH YOU'RE SEEING
AND HEARING.
SOME WOULD CALL IT STRANGER THAN
AVENUE, THERE'S A GLORIOUS
DESTINATION.
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ON ITS NORTH END THE PARK IS
>> IF YOU WERE TO NAME ONE
EVENT.
WHETHER IT WAS A PRIVATE
CELEBRATION.
HE HAD BEEN ASKED BY A COMMITTEE
TO HELP ESSENTIALLY DECORATE
PARADES.
HE ORCHESTRATED THE DECORATION
OF THE CITY IN CONNECTION WITH
THESE PARADES.
WHEN YOU WANTED TO HAVE A GOOD
PARADE, YOU GOT AHOLD OF
CENTENNIAL OF GEORGE
WASHINGTON'S INAUGURATION IN NEW
STANFORD WHITE WAS APPOINTED
DESIGNED THE ARCH, A TEMPORARY
AND STRAW.
>> HE EVEN FOUND IN AN ANTIQUE
SHOP AN OLD STATUE OF GEORGE AND
HE PUT IT ON THE TOP OF THIS
HOURS STRINGING THESE JAPANESE
LANTERNS FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE, SO
YOU MADE THE PASS IN THE
CENTENNIAL PARADE, YOU HAD A
GLITTERING AND GLORIOUS ARC.
>> IT WAS SO POPULAR NEW YORKERS
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.
OF ITS DESIGNER, STANFORD WHITE,
OF NEW YORK, STANFORD WHITE IS
ARCHITECT OF THE 19th AND 20th
CENTURIES.
VERY FLAMBOYANT.
HE HAD RED HAIR, WHAT WE WOULD
CALL A CREW CUT.
>> STANFORD WHITE WAS A TOWERING
FIGURE OF NEW YORK'S GILDED AGE.
>> WHITE WAS MOVING SO FAST THAT
HE WAS LEAVING BEFORE HE
ARRIVED.
JUST ALWAYS ON THE GO.
ALWAYS OPPORTUNISTIC IN A REALLY
>> THROUGHOUT HIS PROLIFIC
CAREER, HE WAS FULL OF
SURPRISES.
LIKE THIS ONE.
>> A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE
THERE'S ACTUALLY A SMALL DOOR ON
THE WEST SIDE OF THE ARCH WITH A
SPIRAL STAIR THAT TAKES YOU UP
TO AN ATTIC SPACE.
THAT ATTIC SPACE IS ACTUALLY
WASHINGTON ARCH IF YOU LOOK UP
WHERE THERE'S AN EAGLE, THAT'S
ESSENTIALLY WHERE THE FLOOR OF
THE ATTIC IS WHERE WE'RE
SIMPLY SPECTACULAR IN LIFE AND
>> YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE THE
AND YOU GET SHOT BY YOUR
OF ONE OF YOUR MOST FAMOUS
BUILDINGS, THAT TENDS TO PUT NEW
OF ARCHITECTS.
WHITE AND SHOT HIM DEAD WITH A
SOLID GOLD REVOLVER.
>> I DID IT.
BECAUSE HE RUINED MY WIFE.
>> MORE THAN A CENTURY AFTER HIS
FOR THE STORY OF HIS MURDER THAN
>> THE STORY OF STANFORD WHITE
LIVES THROUGH HIS ART.
THE BUILDINGS AND MONUMENTS THAT
HE GAVE NEW YORK AND THE NATION.
HIS LIFE-LONG EXUBERANCE FOR
CELEBRATING ITS UNIQUELY
AMERICAN VISION.
>> WHITE IS THE FIRST EXEMPLAR
FROM EUROPE, BUT HE PUT IT
IN THE 1880s, STANFORD WHITE WAS
NEW YORK CITY IN 1853 TO
JOURNALIST AND SHAKESPEARE
>> WHILE STANFORD HAD NO GREAT
WEALTH, HE HAD HIS FATHERS
WORLD.
FRIENDS IN ARTISTIC REALMS, SO
HE WAS ABLE TO ASSIST HIS SON.
TIFFANY, AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
TRAINED AS AN ARCHITECT.
>> UNABLE TO AFFORD FORMAL
TRAINING, STANFORD BEGAN SHOWING
AROUND NEW YORK.
APPRENTICE SHIP WITH HENRY
ALL THE FORMAL TRAINING THAT
SIX YEARS, THAT WAS THE GREATEST
TAKING OFF WHEN HIS OFFICE WON A
TRINITY CHURCH IN BOSTON'S
COPLEY SQUARE, WHITE AND ANOTHER
ARCHITECT, CHARLES McKIMM WERE
COMPLETED, WHITE TRAVELED TO
EUROPE WITH AN INTEREST IN
WAS BOOMING WITH WEALTHY NEW
YORKERS LOOKING FOR LAVISH
WANTED TO EXPRESS THEIR WEALTH
AND THEIR STATUS IN A VARIETY OF
THE MOST VISIBLE WAY, BECAUSE IT
UPWARD ASCENT WHEN THESE
>> WHITE RETURNED TO NEW YORK IN
1879, SOUGHT OUT HIS FRIEND FROM
PARTNERSHIP WITH WILLIAM
RUTHERFORD MEAD.
STRENGTHS, BUT THEIR DETECTIVE
SKILLS WERE NOT THERE, SO THEY
NEEDED SOMEBODY WHO COULD SKETCH
FLAIR FOR INTERIORS.
>> THE ARCHITECTURAL FIRM OF
PRACTICING ARCHITECTURE AT A
SUFFICIENTLY COMPLICATED THAT IT
THE COLLABORATION OF DIFFERENT
DISCIPLINES UNDER THE SINGLE
THE PARTNERS WOULD SAY NO WORK
ORGANIZATIONS.
THEY BECAME THE FIRST REALLY
UNITED STATES.
MAINLY BY THE TRICK OF RUNNING
WITH A ROOM FULL OF TALENTED
OFFICE, SO THE PRINCIPLES IN THE
>> IN LATE 19th CENTURY AMERICA,
SOCIALLY AND PHILOSOPHICALLY
VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
FORTUNE.
FINANCE AND CREATING THE
COMPANY.
ANDREW CARNEGIE COMES TO NEW
YORK, BUT HE HAS GREAT STEEL
MILLS.
THERE'S GREAT MINES IN THE WEST.
THERE'S NATURAL RESOURCES, BUT
THERE'S ALSO A FINANCIAL
AND STEEL.
CHURCHES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND
MONUMENTS.
THE FIRM AND ESPECIALLY IT'S
CHARISMATIC FRONTMAN, STANFORD
WHITE, FOUND A SWEET SPOT.
>> HE WORKED FOR ALL THE ROBIN
AS THEIR CLIENTS GOT RICHER,
THEY PICKED UP NEW CLIENTS AND
BECAME THE LEADING ARCHITECTS OF
AMERICAN ECONOMY EXPLODED.
NEW YORK WAS GOING THROUGH
THE COUNTRY WAS.
THE COUNTRY HAD BEEN UNITED AT
THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR, SO YOU
COUNTRY FROM EAST TO WEST.
>> AS THE FINANCIAL AND CULTURAL
CAPITAL OF THE COUNTRY, NEW YORK
CITY CAME TO EPITOMIZE THE
>> SO IN NEW YORK, WHILE THESE
THE GREAT MONUMENTS WE LIVE WITH
ARE BUILT.
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS
CREATED, THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
OF ART IS FOUNDED, MUSEUM OF
NATURAL HISTORY IS FOUNDED AND
BUILT, THE METROPOLITAN OPERA IS
FOUNDED AND BUILT.
>> BUT ONE CONSEQUENCE OF THIS
DISPARITY BETWEEN THE HAVE AND
HAVE-NOTS.
SATTERIZED IN MARK TWAIN'S NOVEL
"THE GILDED AGE" IT DESCRIBES AN
SERIOUS SOCIETAL PROBLEMS WERE
VEILED, GILDED, YOU MIGHT SAY,
UNDER A THIN COAT OF GOLD.
>> THAT'S ONE OF THE INTERESTING
ONE HAND IT'S LOOKING FORWARD,
ELECTRICITY OR PHOTOGRAPHY WHICH
EVERYBODY CAN SEE AND USE IN
A CERTAIN GROUP OF WEALTHY
PEOPLE TRYING TO IMITATE EUROPE.
PARTNERS WERE AMONG THE MANY
ARCHITECT TO SEE THE CONSPICUOUS
THERE WENT A PARTY HE DIDN'T
IF THERE WAS AN OPENING AT THE
OPERA, HE WAS THERE.
HE WAS AT ALL OF THOSE PLACES.
>> HE HAD AN EYE FOR THE LADIES.
HE HAD A VERY RICH WHIF.
SMITH WHO DEEPENED HIS SPHERE OF
INFLUENCE.
REQUIRED A LOT OF COLLABORATION.
BUILDINGS HAD A HUGE AMOUNT OF
PACIFIC RAILWAY HIRED McKIM,
HOUSES AT 60th AND MADISON
EXTRAORDINARY COLLABORATION WITH
THE BEST TILE SETTERS, MASONERS,
LIGHT FIXTURE DESIGNERS, ALL
BEING LED BY STANFORD WHITE TO
CREATE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND
VILLARD'S MONEY.
>> WHITE'S TEAM INCLUDED ARTISTS
SUCH AS AUGUSTUS SINGARDEN AND
TOGETHER THEY CREATED AN
INTERIOR MASTERPIECE WITH LUSH
MOSAICS.
>> THOUGH VILLARD LOST HIS MONEY
AND HE NEVER OCCUPIED THE HOMES,
OWNERSHIP.
SPECTACULAR PRIVATE HOMES, AND
STANFORD WHITE AS AN
>> HE SHOWED HE COULD MANAGE A
AND PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY WORKS.
>> NOW THERE WERE NEW AND LARGER
PROJECTS FROM THE NEW YORK
STOCKING REGIMEN BECAUSE SO MANY
OF ITS MEMBERS WERE NEW YORK
BLUE BLOODS.
STANFORD WHITE WAS AMONG THE
ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS HIRED
TO DECORATE THE BUILDING'S
PUTTER TOGETHER OF MATERIALS
THAT WAS HIS GREATEST SKILL.
HE COULD PUT TOGETHER MARBLE
WITH RUGS, WITH PIECES OF METAL,
UNIQUE INTERIOR.
>> LIKE THE VETERANS ROOM, WHERE
WHITE WRAPPED THE SUPPORTING
COLUMNS WITH CHAINS.
WAY, AS COLLABORATORS WAS CREATE
SIGNALS THAT TAKES THE NASTINESS
>> SOON THE FIRM BECAME KNOWN AS
DESIGNERS OF PRIVATE CLUBS, MANY
OF THEM STILL OPERATING TODAY.
>> WHITE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD A
1880s AND THOSE CLUBS.
>> PRIVATE MENS CLUBS BECAME
PROMINENT IN NEW YORK IN THE
>> THAT'S WHEN MANY PEOPLE
DECIDED HAVING FRIENDS, GOING TO
DINNER, HAD A LOT OF MEN AND
GOOD BUSINESS CONNECTIONS.
THE CLUBS SET THEM UP.
>> THE CLUBS WERE GOLD MINES FOR
McKIM, MEAD AND WHITE.
>> LOOK AT THEIR CLIENTS AND THE
THOSE ROSTERS WHERE THEY GOT THE
THE EARLY CLUBS WERE HOUSED IN
AND WHITE UNDERSTOOD HOW TO MAKE
THE BUILDING SORT OF EXPRESS THE
FOR ARTISTS.
>> SO THAT THE CENTURY
ENERGY OF FLORENCE IN 15th
CENTURY.
AND THEATRICALS, WHICH WHITE
RENOVATED AND REDECORATED.
AND THE METROPOLITAN CLUB, THE
ARE LOOKING AT A POWERHOUSE.
COURTYARD SO MEMBERS ARRIVING BY
CARRIAGE COULD COME INTO THE
ASSAULTED.
REASON TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT
NAMES IN NEW YORK SOCIETY.
>> THEY WERE THE RICHEST AND
MOST POWERFUL OF THE POLITICRATS
IN EXCHANGE FOR THAT, IT WAS THE
AN EXAMPLE OF UNEXCELLED
AND THAT IS CERTAINLY A VERY
SMALL PRICE TO PAY TO ALLOW SOME
POLITICRATS TO GO INTO THEIR
>> THIS IS A PERIOD WHERE PEOPLE
GAVE UP THE TRADITION OF
ENTERTAINING AT HOME
EXCLUSIVELY, THEY WOULD HAVE
DINNERS IN RESTAURANTS, BALLS,
BALLROOMS THAT THEY RENTED
SPENT THEIR EVENING.
>> STANFORD WHITE NOW TURNED HIS
ATTENTION TO CREATING PUBLIC
OBSESSED WITH MADISON SQUARE
>> MADISON SQUARE GARDEN WAS A
GREAT PLEASURE PALACE.
MAYBE THE FIRST GREAT PLEASURE
PALACE BUILT IN THE UNITED
STATES ON A GREEK SCALE.
ABUNDANCE OF ORNAMENT.
1870s ON UNTIL THE FIRST WORLD
WAR BASICALLY.
>> THIS WAS A COMPLETELY
THIS TOGETHER.
DESIGNING THE BUILDING, HE
>> WHITE HIMSELF IN ONE OF HIS
HE WAS LIKE A ZIGFELD.
>> HE WANTED TO HAVE ALL THE
USUAL THINGS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE
AT AN ENTERTAINMENT PALACE BUT
HE WENT ABROAD AND LOOKED AT
HIPPODRONES IN LONDON AND PARIS,
OLD STUFF OF THE OLD NEW YORK.
>> LIKE HORSE SHOWS, AUTO SHOWS,
GREAT ROOMS AND A ROOF TOP
TERRACE.
>> A NIGHTCLUB IN THE SKY.
EUROPE, SO STANFORD WHITE GAVE
NEW YORK ONE OF ITS OWN.
AND SPECTACULAR THAT EVERYBODY
WAS FLOERED.
ON THE OPENING DAY, PEOPLE SAT
ABOVE THEM, AND THEY PRESSED THE
AND VERY SLOWLY AND SILENTLY THE
ROOF LEFT THE SPACE.
THE SKY.
TOWER.
THE TOWER WAS NOT IN THE
>> THE TOWER WAS MODELED AFTER A
SURPRISE WITH HIS FRIEND AND
>> WHEN THAT COLLABORATION
REACHED A POPULAR LEVEL IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS STATUE,
DESIGNED TO GO ON THE TOP OF
>> DIANA, A PAGAN GODDESS OF THE
>> WHEN IT WAS FIRST CREATED
THIS STATUE WAS MADE IN AN
HOISTED UP TO THE TOP OF THE
AND EVERYBODY STOOD BACK AND
AT FIRST THEY WERE SHOCKED
ON A PIECE OF PUBLIC SCULPTURE
THE BASE OF THE STATUE, IT WAS
QUITE HIGH UP, ABOUT 350 FEET IN
THE AIR.
IT WAS EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE PART
OF NEW YORK.
CAPITAL.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.
>> JUST A BUILDING THAT IS A
EVERY PART OF IT YOU LOOK AT
WHITE GIFTS TO THE OBSERVER.
>> THE MEMORIAL LIBRARY, THE
JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF WHAT WAS
WHITE CREATED A PASTORAL
U-SHAPED PLAN, THE LIBRARY
COMPLETED IN 1903 WAS AT ITS
IT WAS REALLY OVERWHELMING THE
QUITE KNOWING WHAT I WAS GOING
ROTUNDA.
>> ONE OF THE THINGS THEY WERE
MOST INTENT ON IS CREATING A
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO CREATE A
GRAND OVERPOWERING URBAN
WORKED IN THE LANDSCAPE.
IT'S BUILT OUT OF A SOFT COLORED
THE LANDSCAPE.
IT WAS DESIGNED AS THE
CENTERPIECE OF THE CAMPUS.
A UNIVERSITY THAN HAVING A
LIBRARY AT THE CENTER.
>> MODELED AFTER THE PANTHEON IN
HIGH ON A HILL OVERLOOKING THE
THAT WOULD GO AROUND THE LIBRARY
WHERE STUDENTS AND FACULTY COULD
COME AND WALK, LOOK AT VIEWS
PALISADES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF
IN THE LATE 1890s THEY DECIDED
WHY NOT JUST MAKE IT SOMETHING
SPECIAL?
WHY JUST HAVE AN AMBULATORY?
THEY WOULD TURN IT INTO A HALL
OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS.
THAT'S WHAT IT BECAME.
>> A HALL FOR GREAT AMERICAN MEN
INCLUDING GEORGE WASHINGTON,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND WHITE'S
THE FLOWING AMBULATORY AND THE
MUTED STRAW-COLORED BRICKS
BELIE WHAT A VISITOR DISCOVERS
>> STANFORD WHITE WAS VERY, VERY
CONSCIOUS OF DRAWING PEOPLE INTO
SEE OUTSIDE.
BEAUTY AND LUSHNESS OF THE
YOU APPROACH THE LIBRARY DOWN AN
ALLEY OF TREES THAT LEADS TO THE
THROUGH THE PORTICO OF THE
LIBRARY.
THEN INTO A VERY LOW-SCALE
REVOLVING DOOR, AND STRAIGHT
AHEAD OF SU THIS SPECTACULARLY
GRAND RENAISSANCE-INSPIRED
STAIRCASE.
STAIRS TO DISCOVER WHAT'S REALLY
THERE AND WHAT WILL BE THE
CULMINATION OF THIS LONG
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FILLED WITH BOOKS.
READ AT TABLES IN THE ROTUNDA,
SURROUNDING THE ROTUNDA IS A
GROUP OF SMALL PRIVATE OFFICES
CALLED SEMINARY ROOMS, WHERE
EACH ACADEMIC FIELD.
>> THERE WOULD BE A SEMINARY
ALL THE BOOKS FOR THAT
HOME-LIKE FEELING IN THE
DEPARTMENT IN WHICH THEY
MAJORED.
>> EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK YOU WOULD
SEE BOOKS.
BEHIND THE BOOK THERE'S WERE
ROOMS.
IN ORDER TO GET INTO THE
INTO THE ROOMS BEHIND.
>> 16 COLUMNS OF IRISH MARBLE,
>> YOU SEE THE MARBLE COLUMNS.
YOU LOOK UP.
DOME THAT HAS COFFERS WITH
FLOWERED ROSETTES IN IT.
STATUES IN THE ROMAN CLASSICAL
TRADITION.
WHITE'S FRIENDS, PEERS SAID THIS
IS THE BUILDING WHERE WE WANT TO
PUT A MEMORIAL TO WHITE.
AFTER THE TURN OF THE CENTURY,
AS ARCHITECTURAL TASTES BEGAN TO
CHANGE, STANFORD WHITE, EVER THE
ENTREPRENEUR BEGAN TO REINVENT
>> STANFORD WHITE'S INTERESTS AS
A DECORATOR WERE AT A COUPLE
BEAUTIFUL, HE HAD AN EYE TO SPOT
THESE OBJECTS OF BEAUTY.
THOUGHT WERE NOT COMBINABLE.
>> WHITE WOULD NOT BE LIMITED BY
THE CONSTRAINTS OF DETECTIVE
WITH A EUROPEAN HUNTING LODGE.
AN OUTDOOR FOUNTAIN INDOORS.
A MOOSE HEAD SURROUNDED BY
CHERUBS.
DIDN'T LIKE.
AND BUY FURNITURE AND THINGS
LIKE THAT, BUT THEN HE WOULD
FURNITURE, TAPESTRY, OTHER
PIECES, THINGS HE HAD ACQUIRED
IN EUROPE.
BEAUTIFUL PANELLED ROOM THAT WAS
NOW THEY WERE ABLE TO SECURE
MAN.
WANTED BUT ABLE TO HELP THEM BUY
>> PARIES FOR FAMOUS CLIENTS
WHO ATTENDED WHITE'S OWN
PARTIES, MANY OF WHICH WERE HELD
AT WHITE'S HOME ON LONG ISLAND
OVERLOOKING THE SOUND.
>> IN THE CITY, STILL IF YOU
WERE ON 5th AVENUE, IT WAS
SO, THE NEW YORK HOME WOULD BE
WHERE YOU HAD YOUR EVENTS DURING
NEWPORT.
WOULD GO TO THE NORTHERN SHORE
HOMES.
>> WHITE CALLED HIS COUNTRY HOME
>> STANFORD WHITE DID GIVE BIG
THE SUMMER AND SPRING AND FALL
SO, THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE
>> BESSIE WHITE KEPT A RECORD OF
EVERY WEEKEND GUEST.
>> SOME PRETTY FANCY PEOPLE SHOW
STANFORD WHITE WAS USING BOX
OF McKIM, MEAD AND WHITE SHOW UP
>> IT IS A DUTCH DOOR, IT OPENS.
>> SAM WHITE, STANFORD'S GREAT
MANY A CHILDHOOD DAYS.
THE UNUSUAL TREATMENT OF THE
HOME'S EXTERIOR.
>> THE TEXTURE ON THE WALLS OF
PAINTED FARMHOUSE.
WHITE ENLARGED THE HOME BIT BY
>> HE DECIDED TO COVER THE HOUSE
PEBBLE DASH, ESSENTIALLY BEACH
PRESSED INTO WET CEMENT SET ON
WIRE LATH.
>> THIS WAS TYPICAL OF WHITE'S
>> JUST PICKS UP THE LIGHT
WONDERFULLY.
CHARACTER.
TEXTURE, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU
>> THIS IS THE FRONT HALL.
THIS WAS ONE OF THE THREE FORMAL
STANFORD WHITE WAS QUITE
REPURPOSING.
WERE MADE FOR THE MORGAN LIBRARY
IN NEW YORK.
SATISFIED, WANTED SOMETHING OF A
STANFORD WHITE WAS MORE THAN
HAPPY TO TAKE THE REJECTS.
>> ON THE WALLS, ANOTHER
UNEXPECTED MATERIAL --
INTERESTING.
STANFORD WHITE WAS INTERESTED IN
UNUSUAL MATERIALS, NOT BECAUSE
QUALITIES.
MUST HAVE COST ABOUT $10.50 TO
DO THE WHOLE ROOM AND USED IT AS
WALLPAPER.
>> BOX HILL IS A WINDOW INTO
IMAGINATION.
>> EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF
ARTIFACTS FROM DIFFERENT
CULTURES, DIFFERENT PERIODS.
YOU HAVE THE BED WARMING PANS,
WHICH ARE THIS ELEMENT FROM 17th
THE ELEMENTS, THEY LOOK LIKE
GIANT FRYING PANS, YOU WOULD
THEM TO TAKE THE CHILL OFF THE
STANFORD WHITE LOVED THE
DETECTIVE QUALITY OF THIS.
CAME FROM OR WHAT COUNTRY.
HE IS JUXTAPOSING THAT AGAINST
AT THE BOTTOM YOU HAVE THE LIONS
THE FIREPLACE AT THE FAR END IS,
17th OR 18th CENTURY ITALIAN
ANTIQUE.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT SOME OF
SOME OF IT WAS CREATED TO PULL
THE ORIGINAL PIECES TOGETHER
STANFORD WHITE HAD ACCESS TO
EXTRAORDINARY CRAFTSMEN WHO WERE
CRAFTSMEN.
CARVERS, PEOPLE WHO COULD WORK
THINGS THAT ARE NOT COMPLETELY
>> WE ARE IN THE LIVING ROOM
FAMILY CALLS THE BAROQUE ROOM.
IT IS THE OLDEST PART OF THE
HOUSE.
THIS ROOM SHOWS NOT ONLY A TASTE
OF STANFORD WHITE, THIS INTEREST
ARE COVERED IN SEA GRASS AND
COVERING IS USED AS IF IT WERE A
ARRANGES IT IN PANELS.
THE MANTLE PIECE IS EITHER
FRENCH OR ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
>> HOLDS POTS NEAR THE FIRE.
>> AN ORNAMENT TAKEN FROM AN
SECOND LIFE.
THINGS, A SWAN IS A PRETTY
ORDINARY ANIMAL.
YOU SEE THEM OUT HERE IN THE
BIZARRE OR MILDLY THREATENING.
>> AND THE CHANDELIER FROM
>> THE COMBINATION OF THE FIGURE
ANTLERS.
THIS IS REAL STANFORD WHITE.
HE JUST LOVED THIS TOTALLY
BIZARRE COMBINATION.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL DINING ROOM
THIS WAS BUILT BY WHITE IN THE
ADDED THE DINING ROOM.
HOUSE WAS BUILT FOR.
BATHED IN LIGHT, WITH HUNDREDS
OF DELFT TILES FROM HOLLAND.
EXPENSIVE.
IF HE GOT THEM NOW, THEY WOULD
BE VERY EXPENSIVE.
GREAT FIREPLACE.
THAT WAS HIS GENIUS, THAT HE
HE HAD SUCH A FLAIR.
YOU'RE ACTUALLY A LITTLE JEALOUS
>> STANFORD WHITE WAS 46 YEARS
CENTURY.
EXCESSIVE.
>> SO HE MADE MONEY ON THESE
ITEMS.
BUT NOT ENOUGH TO SAVE HIM
FINANCIALLY.
CLIENTS, WHITE WAS OVEREXTENDED.
STATES, MANY OF HIS PRINCIPLED
FIRST DECADE OF THE 20th CENTURY
AS HE DID, FLYING TOO CLOSE TO
THE SUN AND MELTING THEIR VERY
FRAGILE WINGS.
>> STANFORD WHITE WAS ON THE
ROPES BASICALLY AT THE TIME OF
HIS DEATH.
HE HAD SIGNIFICANT DEBT.
MANHATTAN DESTROYED NEARLY ALL
>> WHITE OWED TERRIBLE LARGE
BECAUSE HE OWED SO MUCH MONEY TO
THE EXUBERANCE HE ONCE EXPRESSED
ARCH GAVE WAY TO A MORE MODERATE
>> STANFORD WHITE IS NOT GIVEN
SERIOUSLY.
TOWARDS MORE RESTRAINT AS HE
>> PERHAPS THE BEST EXAMPLE OF
MONUMENT IN BROOKLYN'S FT. GREEN
>> IT'S A DRAMATIC VIEW AS YOU
ENTER FROM THE CORNER OF ST.
CRYPTS IN THE MIDDLE, WHICH IS
148 FEET HIGH ON A HILL.
THE FT. GREEN MARTYRS MEMORIAL
IS A MEMORIAL TO THE
>> DURING THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION, MORE THAN 10,000
PRISONERS OF WAR DIED IN
CAPTIVITY ON BOARD BRITISH
PRISON SHIPS DOCKED OFF WHAT WAS
WERE PRESERVED AND ARE KEPT IN
IT'S BEEN SAID THAT IT WAS
WORKING ON THE NIGHT THAT HE
DIED LATE IN THE OFFICE.
PUT THE PEN DOWN, YOU KNOW, WENT
TO THE THEATER, LITERALLY IT WAS
THE LAST MONUMENT.
>> IT WAS JUNE 25, 1906.
THAT EVENING, STANFORD WHITE
NESBI IT WAS AN ARTIST MODEL AND
CHORUS GIRL AND STANFORD WHITE'S
AFTER THE AFFAIR ENDED, EVELYN
MARRIED HARRY K. THAW, WHO HAD
OBSESSED ENOUGH TO STALK WHITE
THE STALKING ENDED THAT NIGHT ON
WHITE, PULLED OUT A GUN AND SHOT
STANFORD WHITE WAS JUST 52 YEARS
OLD.
WHAT FOLLOWED WAS THE NATION'S
MURDER, BUT IT WAS THE DETAILS
FASCINATED THE PUBLIC.
THE PRESS ATE IT UP.
WHENEVER THOUGHT OF STANFORD
WHITE, THEY THOUGHT OF THE
SCANDAL AS PLAYED OUT IN THE
TRIAL WHERE THE TRIAL WAS ONE OF
THE FIRST TRIALS IN WHICH THEY
TRIAL AND STANFORD WHITE WAS THE
SENSE.
THIS SILENT FILM AND RELEASED IT
BEFORE HIS MURDER TRIAL ENDED IN
A HUNG JURY.
THAW CHANGED HIS PLEA TO
HE WAS CONVICTED AND SPENT THE
NEXT SEVEN YEARS IN A NEW JERSEY
MEANTIME STANFORD WHITE'S FAMILY
WAS FORCED TO SELL WHAT REMAINED
AUCTION, JUST TO PAY OFF HIS
DEBTS.
WHITE'S REPUTATION AS AN
ARCHITECT WAS FOREVER TARNISHED.
>> THIS KIND OF EXUBERANCE WAS
PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT IT ANYMORE.
THEN ULTIMATELY THE -- THE
MODERN MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
LACK OF VITALITY IN TERMS OF
REPUTATION PRETTY MUCH
DISAPPEAR.
MARTYR'S MEMORIAL, WAS COMPLETED
AFTER HIS DEATH.
McKIM AND MEAD CONTINUED
SCANDAL AND CHANGING TIMES
CAUSED THEIR BUSINESS TO SUFFER.
BECOMES INCREASINGLY TROUBLING
TO PEOPLE.
CERTAINLY BY THE TURN OF THE
CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE
INEQUALITY HAD TO BE SOLVED IN
>> THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE
GILDED AGE WAS NOW OUT OF FAVOR.
>> PEOPLE SAID REALLY TERRIBLE
WHITE.
MEN AS NOT INTERPRETERS OF
EUROPEAN TRADITION, BUT RATHER
MERE COPYISTS.
THEY REALLY CAME TO HATE THEM.
FITTING IT FOR AMERICA, THAT
WORLD, A NEW TIME, AND THEY WERE
NOT COPYING ONE BUILDING AFTER
ANOTHER AFTER ANOTHER.
IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR THE GREAT
MUNICIPAL BUILDING BEHIND CITY
HALL IN LOWER MANHATTAN, THE
FIRM WOULD HAVE BEEN RUINED AS
>> NEW YORK CITY'S MUNICIPAL
ALSO DESIGNED THE ORIGINAL
PENNSYLVANIA STATION AND THE
JAMES FARLEY POST OFFICE, BUT AS
BUILDINGS WENT UP, OTHERS CAME
PROHIBITION, WHICH WAS IMPOSED
PLEASURE OUT OF WHITE'S PLEASURE
>> A SISTER IN BRONZE NOW GRACES
THE GARDENS OF BOX HILL,
STANFORD WHITE'S SUMMER HOME
WHICH REMAINS IN THE FAMILY.
FOR A WHILE WHITE'S LIBRARY,
WAS IN JEOPARDY.
>> FORTUNATELY THE CITY WAS ABLE
TO ACQUIRE IT AND CONVERT IT
APARTMENT BUILDINGS OR THE
>> IN 2012 ROBERT A.M. STERN
CAMPUS RIGHT NEXT TO THE ONE
STANFORD WHITE CREATED MORE THAN
THE OTHER BUILDINGS THAT THE
ON THE CAMPUS.
>> STERN'S IS A GREAT ACADEMIC
OF BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND
TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
>> I THINK IT'S THRILLING.
I HEARD IT FROM SO MANY PEOPLE
WHO HAVE BEEN THERE.
STUDENTS ARE SO THRILLED TO HAVE
HELP NOTIING THE ARCHITECT'S
ESTEEM FOR STANFORD WHITE.
SMILE.
>> WE THINK HE WOULD SMILE, TOO,
>> EVERY TIME YOU WALK DOWN TO
AND SEE THAT ARCH, THAT IS THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE.
CENTURY.
>> THE IDEA THAT NEW YORK WAS AN
A GLOBAL ECONOMIC FORCE AND IT
NEEDED TO HAVE AN URBAN FABRIC
THAT DIGNIFIED ITS POSITION IN
THE WORLD ECONOMY.
I THINK THAT McKIM, MEAD AND
CITY THEIR CITY, A WORLD CLASS
ON PAR WITH PARIS AND WITH
BY EXTENSION TO MAKE AMERICA A
WORLD CLASS COUNTRY ON THE WORLD
STAGE WITH FRANCE AND WITH
ENGLAND.
WAS NOW A CITY COMPARABLE TO
THEY LIVED HERE, THEY WORKED
>> IN DEATH SOMETIMES PEOPLE
BECOME MYTHIC.
AND THERE COULD BE A COMPONENT
OF THAT TO STANFORD WHITE.
THAT'S WHY IT'S ALWAYS SAID THAT
YORK CITY PARKS AND THROUGHOUT
THE CITY, THERE IS NO MONUMENT
TO THE FIRM OF McKIM, MEAD AND
WHITE, THEY ALWAYS STATED THAT
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>>> A PERSONAL NOTE, YEARS AGO I
FOUND A GREAT OLD HOUSE ON THE
SEA ON EASTERN LONG ISLAND, IT
AND AN ARCHITECT FRIEND DROVE UP
WHITE HOUSE.
I DID.
UNIDENTIFIED IN THE ATTIC.
AN OLD-TIMER VISITING ME SAID,
AH, EVELYN NESBIT.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING
"TREASURES OF NEW YORK."
>>> FUNDING FOR TREASURES OF NEW
YORK: STANFORD WHITE -- IS
PROVIDED BY THE MARINGOTH FAMILY