As she moved from artist’s studio to men’s-club stage and postcards of her face cropped up around the city, she relied heavily on her mother to supervise her career and social life. A familiar path, but in her case both the initial innocence and the heat of the spotlight were particularly pronounced. Their legacy includes Columbia University’s main campus, the James Farley Post Office, the Brooklyn Museum, the Morgan Library, all still standing, and most famously the original Penn Station (whose demolition in 1963 is mourned by everyone in the world except two people).Įvelyn Nesbit had arrived in New York as a teenager with her debt-laden mother and acquired some notice as a model and a chorus girl. Stanford White, a driven and charismatic man, was a founding partner of McKim, Mead and White, a firm responsible for an absurdly large portion of New York’s grandest architecture. The movie version of his half of the conversation would go something like this: “Right, yes, that Stanford White.
Moments before and one floor above, Terhune, filling in as a drama critic for the New York Evening World, had been a witness to the crime of the century, and he was calling in the scoop. He had forcibly removed a man mid-conversation, and now, as he shouted into the phone, he kicked out a leg and swung his free arm to fend off the displaced caller and another man wielding a chair. One warm June night in 1906, Albert Payson Terhune could be found engaged in battle for a telephone booth in the old Madison Square Garden while wearing a tuxedo.
The Architect, The “It” Girl And The Toy Pistol That Wasn’t
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