Mary Norriswife, 30. At the end of our day in the city, Pamela and I drove up to Newport to have a look at the Gilded Age palaces Stanford had built thereprincipally Rosecliff, the white confection that he designed for the society matron Tessie Oelrichs. Stanford White helped add to it in 1895. The ceiling was low. Bessie Smith and Stanford White had one child, Lawrence Grant White. Ms. White added that even the tamest books could be perceived as hurtful when they related to real people. Stanford White was 30 years older than Evelyn. White was indefatigable, socializing whenever possible not just because he richly enjoyed the citys entertainments, but he made contacts for McKim, Mead & White. It was the right place for Stanford, who moved in both worlds. There, at the bottom of the stairs, were the life-size wooden Baroque lions: my grandfather was always shooing us children off when we sat on them, because we might break their backward-curling tails, which we did. ''I found over 20 factual errors in the chapter about the Chanler family,'' said J. Winthrop Aldrich, a Chanler cousin and an owner of Rokeby. However, if they are, they should be dealt with inside the family forum, not in the public eye like so much dirty laundry.''. On Grand Street, we came upon the monumental neoclassical faade of the Bowery Savings Bank, which was designed by Stanford in 1892. Once, when I was seven, Dad played a boogie-woogie on the piano and I thought I would pass out with joy. . But the detail on which he lavished the most effort and expense was the statue of Diana. Among his growing expenses were the costs of his girls: he did things like pay their dental bills (he would try to perfect his girls as if they were works of art), and he once put Evelyn Nesbit and her mother up in a hotel for more than a year. Early Life. In 1888, the year after Larry was born, he started a group called the Sewer Club with Saint-Gaudens, the draftsman Joseph Wells, and the artists Frank Lathrop and Thomas Dewing. The main arena could accommodate fourteen thousand people, had a floor that could be flooded for aquatic spectacles, was bright with hundreds of electric lights (still a novelty in those days), and had a huge skylight that could be opened to the air. ''Most of them can't believe that he's right here on Long Island. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. With thirty years separating us, we were the oldest and the youngest of Stanfords great-granddaughters, and we both had red hair, as Stanford did, though mine was partly gray by this time, and Pamelas was strawberry blond, quite unlike Stanfords chestnut. Our mother bought us dresses that were long, so that we would have room to grow into them, and after we grew out of them they were handed down. The dining room ceiling is cork, while the panels flanking the fireplace are made of cast-glass blocks, and the wall above the fireplace is clad in iridescent tile.
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