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SUMMARY:Plants and Paintings in Philadelphia
DESCRIPTION:Valley of Santa Ysabel by Frederic Edwin Church \nThis tour will focus on accomplishments that preceded the Victorian era. In the morning we will explore Bartram’s Garden\, the oldest surviving botanic garden in this country. It was begun in 1728 by John Bartram\, a self-taught botanist who collected seeds and plants on travels that took him north to New England\, south to Florida and west to Lake Ontario. Back in Philadelphia\, he nurtured them in the garden surrounding his house that borders on the Schuylkill River. In the afternoon we will see the exhibit “From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. On display will be paintings by such Philadelphia artists as Charles Willson Peale\, James Peale and William Russell Birch of the Schuylkill\, Delaware and Wissahichon waterways. Works by several Hudson River painters are also included in the exhibit\, among them Frederic Edwin Church and Thomas Cole\, who trained as an artist in Philadelphia in the 1820s. Lunch will be on our own at the Reading Terminal Market. \nNo refunds will be made for cancellations. \nTo pay online please click here\nTo pay via check please make checks payable to Metropolitan Chapter VSA and mail to \nTours\nMetropolitan Chapter VSA\n232 11th Street\nNY NY 10003 \nThis tour is limited to 40 participants\nFEES: $135 for Victorian Society New York members\, $165 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Wednesday\, October 9. \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health and able to participate safely in the activities involved. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, please contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/plants-and-paintings-in-philadelphia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190601T160000
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SUMMARY:Hudson Valley House Delights Tour
DESCRIPTION:Departing by train from Grand Central Station\, we will visit two prominent Victorian homes on the Hudson\, Washington Irving’s Sunnyside and the Gould family’s Lyndhurst. is tour is walking intensive; we will walk from the Irvington station to Sunnyside and then Lyndhurst via the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. Walking shoes/sneakers required. Lunch can be brought from home\, or purchased at Zarrilli’s Deli in Irvington. \n$75 FOR VSNY MEMBERS \n$90 FOR NONMEMBERS \n \n  \n \n\n\n\nHudson Valley House Delights\n\n\nMember Pricing $75.00 USDNon-Member Pricing $90.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/hudson-valley-house-delights-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190520T200000
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SUMMARY:Queen Victoria's Birthday Celebration and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The 52nd Annual Meeting this year will celebrate Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday with a lively celebration\, while presenting our annual Victorian Society New York awards.  Please join us by RSVP via email @ membership@vicsocny.org. The event is free to members\, guests are welcome to attend for $40.  This admission price includes a one-year Victorian Society membership.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/queen-victorias-birthday-celebration-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:Papillon Bar and Bistro\, 22 East 54th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10022
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190511T090000
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SUMMARY:Preservation in the Hudson Highlands Tour
DESCRIPTION:The first stop on this bus tour will be Cold Spring\, where an iron foundry operated from 1811-1911 supplying artillery to the West Point Military Academy across the Hudson River. A talk about the town’s history will be followed by free time to explore its historic district before lunch at the Hudson House\, an inn built in 1832. Afterwards\, the bus will take us to Garrison to visit Boscobel. This 1804-08 house was demolished at its previous location  and then reassembled on this site in the 1950s. After visiting the house and its gardens\, we move on to works by Richard Upjohn\, first visiting  St. Philip’s Church in the Highlands\, which he designed. It opened in 1865\, and Upjohn was a parishioner there for the rest of his life. We will see the exterior of the house in which he lived from1852 until his death in 1878. The central part of the house was built in 1735; Upjohn added extensions and enlarged the dormers. \n  \nOur final stop will be at a private house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1888 by railroad magnate Samuel Sloan as a wedding gift for a daughter\, it remained in her family until 1956. The current owners bought the property in 2005 and brought in a collection of 19th century English transferware that includes historical and romantic patterns. Scenes and events relating to the Hudson Valley and New York are prominent in the historical patterns\, while scenes from voyages of discovery dominate the romantic. Prints relating to the voyages of discovery are also on display. Argand and other Victorian era light fixtures\, wired for electricity\, are installed throughout the house. \n  \nThis bus tour is limited to 40 participants.\nFees: $135 for Victorian Society New York members\, $160 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Tuesday\, April 30. \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nHudson Highlands\n\n\nMember Pricing $135.00 USDNon-Member Pricing $160.00 USD\n\n\nLunch Option\n\n\nAtlantic SalmonNew York Strip SteakRigatoni Siciliana
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/preservation-in-the-hudson-highlands-tour/
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SUMMARY:Emerging Scholars
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be held at Sotheby’s Institute\, 570 Lexington Avenue (51st Street). \nOn May 2\, at the Victorian Society New York’s annual Emerging Scholars event\, young historians will shed light on little-appreciated aspects of 19th-century culture. During the free lectures (6 to 8 pm with reception\, Sotheby’s Institute of Art\, 570 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street)\, Christine Garnier will explore symbolism hidden in a mining tycoon’s Tiffany silver dinnerware; Ayaka Sano will examine surprising connections between men’s detachable shirt collars and anti-Chinese bigotry; and Elizabeth Muir will reveal her finds about New York brothel furniture. \n  \nRSVP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT  \nYou may RSVP here! 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/emerging-scholars/
LOCATION:Sotheby’s Institute\, 570 Lexington Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T193000
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SUMMARY:Born Too Soon\, Born Too Late: Mabel Loomis Todd\, Millicent Todd Bingham and Their Upside-Down Victorian Sensibilities
DESCRIPTION:This lecture is co-sponsored with and will be held at The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen.  \n20 WEST 44TH STREET\, BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH AVENUES \nRECEPTION AT 6:00 \nLECTURE AT 6:30 \nJulie Dobrow\, a Tutts University professor\, will speak about the mixed-up Victorian sensibilities and fascinating lives of Mabel Loomis Todd\, Emily Dickinson’s first editor\, and her daughter Millicent Todd Bingham. Todd lived the majority of her life in the 19th century but confided to her diary her belief that she had been born one or two centuries too soon. Her love affair with Dickinson’s brother Austin scandalized their prim community in Amherst\, Massachusetts. Bingham’s professional life began in geography but shifted to Dickinson scholarship\, and her life encompassed more of the 20th century than the 19th\, yet she considered herself more Victorian than her mother. Todd\, who spent most of her adult life in Amherst\, and Bingham\, who lived for years in Manhattan\, both pushed the envelope of expectations for women of their eras. e two women were artistically gifted\, and they traveled the world\, wrote prolifically and advocated for land preservation. Their complicated mother-daughter relationship is well-documented in their enormous\, intertwined paper trails. Dobrow’s book\, After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet\, was published by W.W. Norton in October 2018. \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/born-too-soon-born-too-late-mabel-loomis-todd-millicent-todd-bingham-and-their-upside-down-victorian-sensibilities/
LOCATION:The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen\, 20 W 44th St\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190323T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190323T150000
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SUMMARY:Queen Victoria's High Tea
DESCRIPTION:Anticipate the celebration of Queen Victoria’s 200th birthday with High Tea in a private room at the Oscar Wilde Bar\, a renowned establishment that has been dubbed “the most elaborately decorated pub in New York City.”  Our High Tea begins with a glass of sherry or port. This will be followed by three courses: 1) scones with clotted cream\, 2) a selection of four tea sandwiches\, 3) four choices of petit-fours\, tartlets\, cookies. And pots of tea (four selections). A brief lecture on the British origins of high tea will be given by John Metcalfe\, a native of London and a former VSNY Board member. \n  \n  \nSpace is limited so only 30 participants can be accommodated.\nFEES: $55 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $65 for others \nPaid reservations must be received by Friday\, March 15\nMeeting place will be provided with reservation confirmation. \nNo refunds will be made for cancellations. \n\n \n\n\n\nHigh Tea\n\n\nMember Pricing $55.00 USDNon-member Pricing $65.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/queen-victorias-high-tea/
LOCATION:Oscar Wilde Bar\, 45 W 27th\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190311T180000
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund Benefit
DESCRIPTION:To benefit the Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage\, the Victorian art of wrapping rooms in spectacular panoramas will be the topic of scholar Nicole M. Mullen’s talk\, “French Scenic Wallpaper.” Mullen\, the curator of SFO Museum at the San Francisco International Airport\, is working on a double-feature SFO exhibition of Zuber’s French panoramic wallpaper and late 19th-century Victorian wallpaper featuring the contemporary maker Bradbury & Bradbury\, which opens July 2019. Her talk will explore how 19th-century armchair voyagers found captivating substitutes for foreign travel in the form of panoramic spectacles. French manufacturers painted and printed vivid views of ancient Roman ruins\, Mount Vesuvius’s eruptions and Brazilian jungles teeming with colorful birds and toothy crocodiles. The scenes were teaching tools as well\, with lessons on geography\, history\, mythology\, literature and life in foreign lands. The Margot Gayle Fund provides grants for preservation or conservation of Victorian era material culture. Each year 5% of the fund’s principal is available for grants \nReception to follow \n\n \n\n\n\nMargot Gayle Fund Benefit\n\n\nTicket $50.00 USDTicket +Add’l Donation $100.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-benefit/
LOCATION:Grolier Club\, 49 East 60th Street\, New York\, New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T193000
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SUMMARY:The Making of a Modern Museum: The Hewitt Sisters
DESCRIPTION:When New Yorkers utter the phrase “Cooper Hewitt\,” it typically brings to mind the Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum\, housed in Andrew Carnegie’s mansion on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue. Far less renowned are the institution’s 19th-century women patrons\, who made their family names synonymous with achievements in art and design. Sue Shutte\, the historian at Ringwood Manor in Ringwood\, New Jersey (the Hewitt family’s longtime country home)\, will bring deserved attention back to three sisters\, Amy\, Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt. They were world travelers with deep interests in collecting\, music and equestrianism. Their story is particularly relevant now\, as ever more scholarship is devoted to the history of influential women. Come meet the Hewitt sisters and their famous family and discover how these three young progressive women used their passion to establish America’s premier museum devoted to design.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-making-of-a-modern-museum-the-hewitt-sisters/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190223T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190223T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
CREATED:20190111T235047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190121T205446Z
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SUMMARY:A Victorian Dog’s Life - American Kennel Club Museum Tour
DESCRIPTION:The American Kennel Club has a new museum devoted to dogs. On our museum tour\, we will learn how 19th-century artists immortalized humans’ best friends with portraiture and sculpture as well as what a dog’s life was like in Victorian times— how animals were bred\, trained\, housed and shown. We will also see how owners’ expectations have evolved. \n$25 FOR VSNY MEMBERS \n$35 FOR NONMEMBERS \n  \n  \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nVictorian Dog’s Life\n\n\nMember $25.00 USDNon-member $35.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/a-victorian-dogs-life-american-kennel-club-museum-tour/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190215T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
CREATED:20190125T230935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T231216Z
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde's Valentine for America & Summer School Presentations
DESCRIPTION:The Victorian Society in America Presents \nA Summer Schools Evening* \n“Oscar Wilde’s Valentine for America: 1882 Lecture Tour”\nA lecture by Richard Guy Wilson\nDirector\, VSA Newport Summer School and Commonwealth Professor of\nArchitectural History\, University of Virginia\nFREE\nFriday\, February 15th\, 6:00 PM\nThe Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall\nThe New School\nUniversity Center\, UL105\n63 Fifth Avenue\nNew York \n*Learn about the VSA Summer Schools in\nNewport\, London and Chicago before this\nyear’s March 1st application deadline! \nRSVP by Wednesday\, February 13th\nto admin@vsasummerschools.org \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/oscar-wildes-valentine-for-america-summer-school-presentations/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190215
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Fund Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Margot Gayle with the Jefferson Market Courthouse. \nMargot Gayle Fund for Preservation of Victorian Heritage \nApplications are due February 14\, 2019. \nFind out more and apply for a 2019 Margot Gayle Fund grant.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margot-gayle-fund-application-deadline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T001810Z
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SUMMARY:How Victorian Valentines Made Hearts Soar
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Rosin\, president of the National Valentine Collectors Association\, has made a “passionate obsession” for more than 40 years out of historical love and friendship cards\, keepsakes and related ephemera. Her lecture will reveal the visual and structural wonders of Victorian Valentines. Surfaces were richly textured with gilded lace and high-relief embossing\, and cards were engineered to turn into three-dimensional forms including battlefield tents and steam engines. Rosin will discuss the cards’ hidden codes of floral motifs\, which represented various virtues and emotions\, and the evolution of flattering and comic depictions of lovers\, whether athletes\, crooked politicians or caged mice. Rosin has made major discoveries about the makers; women and immigrants played groundbreaking roles in designing and marketing Valentines. She describes the cards and mementoes\, whether handmade or mass-produced\, as demonstrating “the creativity and passion of human emotion.” Rosin is also the president-emerita of the Ephemera Society of America. In 2018\, her family’s collection of about 12\,300 Valentines and related items was donated to e Huntington Library\, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino\, California\, to be accessible for research and display.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/how-victorian-valentines-made-hearts-soar/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181209
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SUMMARY:Holiday Treats and Treasures on the Hudson
DESCRIPTION:Image courtesy of NPS \nSaturday\, December 8\, Departure at 8 a.m. \nWe visit Rhinebeck\, one of the most historic and quaint towns up the Hudson River two hours from Manhattan. It began as a Dutch settle-ment on land purchased from the Iroquois in 1686. The tour includes a lecture on the town’s history (a Continental Army regiment trained here) as well as a short walking tour and site visits. The grandest of these sites is nearby Wilderstein\, an 1852 Queen Anne mansion of three stories with a five-story tower. We will also visit the Church of the Messiah\, which has Tiffany stained glass windows\, and Delamater House\, an example of American Gothic by architect A. J. Davis. A private luncheon will be served at the Beekman Arms\, alleged to be the oldest functioning inn in America (1766). All building sites and town shops will be charmingly decorated for the holidays. \n  \n  \n  \nThis bus tour is limited to 30 participants.\nFees: $165 for Victorian Society New York members\, $190 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Friday\, November 30. \n\n \n\n\n\nHolidays on the Hudson\n\n\nMember $165.00 USDNon-Member $190.00 USD\n\n\nLunch Options\n\n\nYankee Pot RoastBreast of ChickenPasta Primavera
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/holiday-treats-and-treasures-on-the-hudson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
CREATED:20180910T005929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181127T230809Z
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SUMMARY:Devil’s Mile: The Rich\, Gritty History of the Bowery
DESCRIPTION:Victorian times were all about the suppression of anything salacious\, as Alice Sparberg Alexiou\, author of the new book\, Devil’s Mile: The Rich\, Gritty History of the Bowery\, will explain. The era’s prudery just increased the urge to experience sex and weirdness—all commodities then were readily available on the Bowery. This is where the action was\, in the form of freak shows\, minstrel shows\, gay bars (“fairy resorts”)\, concert saloons with back rooms devoted to fight contests and the waitresses doubling as prostitutes\, anatomical museums that featured human fetuses and diseased human body parts pickled in formaldehyde\, and scams offering cures for syphilis (which was then untreatable). The Bowery was at its most spirited on Saturday nights\, where uptown swells headed for a night of slumming. But watch out\, because you might get your drink drugged (a “mickey finn”)\, your pocket picked. Or even murdered. \nAttendees are invited to pre-lecture receptions at 6pm. Talks begin at 6:45 pm. \nRSVP for the November 6th Lecture
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/devils-mile-the-rich-gritty-history-of-the-bowery/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181111
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SUMMARY:Walk into Weeksville
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, November 10\, 2 p.m.                                                                     \nWeeksville blossomed as one of the first free black communities in America\, just a bit over a decade after New York State abolished slavery in 1827. The Brooklyn community’s name hails from its founder James Weeks\, a stevedore and former slave\, who bought a plot of land in the area in 1838. At its peak\, it was home to 700 free black families. The building of the Brooklyn Bridge\, introduction of the street grid system and urban sprawl all impacted the Weeksville community. As a result\, its identity waned as it was slowly subsumed into the larger neighborhood of Crown Heights. Discovered again in 1968 by a Pratt Institute workshop\, the houses eventually were reopened to the public as the Weeksville Heritage Center\, with each house showcasing a different era of Weeksville history. \n  \nThis walking tour is limited to 25 participants\nFEES: $20 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $30 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Thursday\, November 8 \n\n \n\n\n\nWeeksville Tour\n\n\nMember $20.00 USDNon-Member $30.00 USD
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/walk-into-weeksville/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T200000
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SUMMARY:Treading the Borders: Immigration and the Victorian Stage
DESCRIPTION:Maria Bonfati in the Black Crook. Oil on Canvas. ca. 1866. \n“Treading the boards” is a colloquial theatrical expression that refers to the wooden planks of the stage upon which performers ply their trade. Dr. Matthew Wittmann\, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection at Hougton Library\, will highlight a simple but signficant point – much of the richness and vitality of the performing arts in American derives from creative talent originating elsewhere. The Victorian stage featured a fascinating mix of performers who enriched American culture. Dr. Wittman’s presentation draws upon materials in the Harvard Theatre Collection to tell the stories of noteworthy immigrant actors and entertainers. \nAttendees are invited to pre-lecture receptions at 6pm. Talks begin at 6:45 pm. \nRSVP for the November 6th Lecture
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/treading-the-borders-immigration-and-the-victorian-stage/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T104500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181027T104500
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SUMMARY:Comfortably Explore Woodlawn Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Jim Henderson. \n  \nJoin us for a trolley tour of The Woodlawn Cemetery\, a 400-acre destination in the northern part of the Bronx. Designed by James C. Sidney in the rural style on rolling hills\, the nonsectarian cemetery opened during the Civil War in 1863. The ceremonial burial there of Admiral David Farragut in 1870 spurred interest in the cemetery\, and it became the final resting place of many well known figures in American history. Herman Melville\, Thomas Nast\, Nelly Bly and F.W. Woolworth are among those interred here. It has one of the most impressive collections of mausoleums in NewYork\, perhaps in the nation.  Designers of monuments in the cemetery include James Renwick\, Stanford White\, John Russell Pope\, Carrere and Hastings\, Cass Gilbert\, Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge. On our tour we will see the graves of entrepreneurs and wealthy socialites of the Victorian era. A highlight of the tour will be a chance to enter the Belmont Mausoleum where Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and her husband Oliver\, a one-term congressman\, are entombed. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt\, its exterior is a replica of the French Chapel of St. Hubert at Chateau d’Amboise. The cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011.\nThis tour is limited to 30 participants\nFEES: $30 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $40 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Thursday\, October 25 \n\n \n\n\n\nPricing\n\n\nMember $30.00 USDNon-Member $40.00 USD\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health. They must be able to participate safely in the activities involved and keep pace with the group. Sites we visit may have challenging stairs or steep or rocky hills. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/comfortably-explore-woodlawn-cemetery/
LOCATION:Woodlawn Cemetery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:The Secret Surgery on Grover Cleveland: Cancer and Politics in the Gilded Age
DESCRIPTION:On July 1\, 1893\, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht\, sailed into the calm blue waters of Long Island Sound and disappeared. The events of the next five days were so incredible that even when the truth was revealed\, many Americans simply would not believe it. Matthew Algeo\, author of The President is a Sick Man\, will discuss this extraordinary unknown chapter in American history: Cleveland’s secret cancer surgery and the brazen political cover-up which followed. \nPlease RSVP here. \nAttendees are invited to pre-lecture receptions at 6pm. Talks begin at 6:45 pm.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-secret-surgery-on-grover-cleveland-cancer-and-politics-in-the-gilded-age/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180929T170000
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SUMMARY:Glimpses of the Historic Hamptons
DESCRIPTION:A chartered bus will take us to a private home in Southampton. It boasts one of the best collections of 19th-century Aesthetic Movement paintings\, ceramics and furnishings in the area and is rarely open to the public. From there we go to East Hampton for lunch. In the afternoon\, we will have a guided tour of the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio\, which just opened to the public on July 3 after a five-year $4.5-millon restoration. The first artists’ studio in East Hampton\, it was built in 1884 for Thomas Moran (1837-1926) and Mary Nimmo Moran (1842-1899). He is renowned for his paintings of the American West including those of the Grand Canyon\, Yosemite and Yellowstone. She was a landscape artist and etcher. Works by both are displayed in the studio along with some original furnishings. In the afternoon we will also visit the Home Sweet Home Museum. This Colonial era house has been maintained as a shrine to John Howard Payne (1791-1852) since 1927. An actor\, playwright and dramatist\, Payne wrote the lyrics for the song that was a 19th century favorite for an 1823 opera\, Clari. \nThis tour is limited to 40 participants                \nFEES: $150 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $180 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Thursday\, September 20 \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nPricing\n\n\nNon Member $180.00 USDMember Pricing $150.00 USD\n\n\nLunch Options\n\n\nHamburger and FriesFish and ChipsCheesburger with FriesVegetarian Chili\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health. They must be able to participate safely in the activities involved and keep pace with the group. Sites we visit may have challenging stairs or steep or rocky hills. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time. \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/glimpses-of-the-historic-hamptons/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180906T203000
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SUMMARY:East in Eden: William Niblo and His Pleasure Garden of Yore
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Image Courtesy of The Collection of Tom Burnett” \nWilliam Niblo\, an Irish immigrant to New York City at the end of the 18th century\, rose from his initial position in the hostelry and tavern business in Lower Manhattan to found an immensely popular “coffee house\,” and then opened an enormous pleasure garden in the London tradition at the northern limits of the populated City in 1828. Initially mostly an outdoor place of leisurely entertainment and recreation of middle class New Yorkers who eschewed the use of few crowded and noisy public parks\, Niblo’s Garden expanded and improved many times over its 66-year existence\, always under the name of its founder. Niblo’s name and good will were known all over the United States\, and his stages were sought after by performers of all ills for opera\, circus acrobatics\, equeststrian displays and grand private celebrations. The story of this devout Episcopalian’s rise in New York through the 19th century with his wife Martha King Niblo at his side forms a remarkable chapter in the story of public\, genteel\, urban entertainment in Victorian times. \n  \nBenjamin Feldman has lived and worked in New York City since 1969. His essays and book reviews about New York City\, American history\, and Yiddish culture have appeared online and in print in CUNY’s Gotham History Blotter\, The New Partisan Review\, Columbia County History and Heritage\, and Ducts literary magazine. \n  \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/east-in-eden-william-niblo-and-his-pleasure-garden-of-yore/
LOCATION:38 West 86th Street\, 38 West 86th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10024
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180602T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180602T161500
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SUMMARY:Excursion to Newark
DESCRIPTION:Newark\, the third oldest city in the United States\, offers many exciting things to see\, and we will be fortunate enough to explore three private Victorian homes there. After a traditional Portuguese lunch in the city’s historic Ironbound section\, we will visit the Ballantine House at The Newark Museum. The 27-room\, late Victorian-style mansion was built in 1885 for Jeannette and John Holme Ballantine of the celebrated Newark beer-brewing family. The original house had eight bedrooms and three bathrooms. A part of the museum since 1937\, today two of its floors are interpreted as a suite called “House  & Home” with eight period rooms\, two hallways and six thematic galleries—all filled with things that might have been found in people’s homes from the 1650s to the present. \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 50 participants\nFEES: $125 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $150 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Thursday\, May 24 \n\n \n\n\n\nPricing\n\n\nMember $125.00 USDNon-Member $150.00 USD\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n  \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health. They must be able to participate safely in the activities involved and keep pace with the group. Sites we visit may have challenging stairs or steep or rocky hills. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/excursion-to-newark/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T183000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:51st Annual Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Annual Meeting and Awards. \nAfter the presentation\, members and guests are invited to a reception where they can meet the award recipients. \nEvent is Free for members\nGuest rate $ 25.00 \nPlease RSVP to membership@vicsocny.org
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/51st-annual-business-meeting/
LOCATION:Church of the Incarnation\, 209 Madison Avenue\, New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T153000
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SUMMARY:Exploring NoHo: the Neighborhood Where Manhattan's Gilded Age Began
DESCRIPTION:Lafayette Place was the premier address for the leading families of antebellum New York\, when “Society” transitioned from staid brownstone houses on Washington Square to the Gilded Age mansions along Fifth Avenue. Nearby Bond and Great Jones Streets were also favored addresses. Michael Rayhill\, who focused on the area during his graduate studies\, will lead our tour and share information not only about architectural\nhistory and design but also the social and often intertwined history of the privileged families who once resided in the vicinity\, including the Astors\, Delanos\, Gardiners\, Langdons\, Livingstons and Wards—to name a few. The tour will illustrate how the radical changes that took place after the Civil War led to the demise of this  once quiet and genteel neighborhood. We will be allowed into living quarters of a building on Colonnade Row\, completed in 1833. \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 25 Participants\nFEES: $25 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $35 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Monday\, May 14 \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nPricing\n\n\nMember $25.00 USDNon-member $35.00 USD\n\n\n\n\n\n \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health. They must be able to participate safely in the activities involved and keep pace with the group. Sites we visit may have challenging stairs or steep or rocky hills. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/exploring-noho-the-neighborhood-where-manhattans-gilded-age-began/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180510T200000
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SUMMARY:Mark Twain and Charles Darwin: The Evolution of Literature
DESCRIPTION:Mark Twain (1835-1910) and Charles Darwin (1809-1882) met only once\, but Darwin influenced Twain’s work and view on society\, while Twain was one of Darwin’s favorite novelists. Golden has explored the unexpected connections between two Victorian intellectual titans\, examining the full range of Twain’s writing\, from fiction\, travelogues\, philosophical works\, social commentary and personal correspondence. It shows the enduring relevance of Darwin’s thought and the surprising depth of what\, on the surface\, seems like simple humor. \n  \nJoin us as James Joseph Golden\, director of education at the Mark Twain House and Museum speaks about Twain’s work and Darwin’s influence.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/mark-twain-and-charles-darwin-the-evolution-of-literature/
LOCATION:Church of the Holy Trinity\, 316 East 88th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180505T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180505T170000
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SUMMARY:An Oyster Bay Day
DESCRIPTION:On Long Island’s North Shore we will visit Sagamore Hill\, the mansion Theodore Roosevelt built in 1884-85 and used during the summers of his presidency\, 1901-08. Family furnishings remain in the house. Time permitting\, a drive through part of what was Louis Comfort Tiffany’s estate will afford glimpses of remain-ing elements. After lunch we go to Raynham Hall. The oldest part of this house\, built in 1738\, has ties to Revolutionary War spies. A Victorian wing was added in 1852. Our last stop will be at Coe Hall and Planting Fields Arboretum. The 65-room Tudor Revival style mansion was built in the early 20th century for William R. Coe\, an insurance executive\, and his wife\, Mai\, heiress of a Standard Oil fortune. Hundreds of acres of gardens surround the mansion. \nPlease note to also select your lunch menu option when paying for this event. \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 34 participants\nFEES: $140 for Victorian Society New York Members\, $165 for others                \nPaid reservations must be received by Thursday\, April 26 \n\n \n\n\n\nPricing\n\n\nMember $140.00 USDNon-Member $165.00 USD\n\n\nMenu Option\n\n\nHorseradish honey salmonMaple pecan chicken breastPasta primavera with shrimpPasta Primavera (vegetarian)\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n  \nParticipants in our educational tours must be in excellent health. They must be able to participate safely in the activities involved and keep pace with the group. Sites we visit may have challenging stairs or steep or rocky hills. If you have any doubt about your ability to participate fully due to health conditions or disabilities\, contact Victorian Society New York at info@vicsocny.org or (212) 886-3742. Victorian Society New York reserves the right to decline to accept or refuse to retain any person as a member of our tours at any time.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/an-oyster-bay-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180419T203000
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SUMMARY:Margot Gayle Benefit Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Terra Cotta – Don’t Take it for Granite\nA Lecture by Susan Tunick to benefit\nThe Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage \n \nSusan Tunick is an authority on terra cotta\, an artist in the medium and president of Friends of Terra Cotta. She is the author of Terra-Cotta Skyline\, Paris and the Legacy of French Architectural Ceramics and Terra Cotta…Don’t Take It for Granite. She was guest curator for “Uncommon Clay: New Jersey’s Architectural Terra Cotta Industry” at the Middlesex County Museum (2002-03). Her work as an artist working in clay includes murals in PS 222 in Jackson Heights\, Queens and sculptures in the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Station in Bayonne. \n Reception to Follow \n\n \n\n\n\nAdmission\n\n\nIndividual Admission $50.00 USDDual Admission $100.00 USDAdmission $200.00 USDAdmission $250.00 USDAdmission $500.00 USDAdmission $1\,000.00 USD\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nThe Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage\, established in 2008\, enables the Metropolitan Chapter to make monetary grants for projects for preservation or conservation of Victorian material culture in the New York Metropolitan area. \n  \nIf you cannot attend but would like to donate click below \n\n\n\n\nChecks can be made payable to: Metropolitan Chapter VSA \nand mailed to:\nMargot Gayle Fund\nMetropolitan Chapter of Victorian Society in America\nc/o Village Alliance\n8 East 8th Street\nNew York\, NY 10003
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/margo-gayle-benefit-lecture/
LOCATION:Estonian House\, 243 East 34th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T200000
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SUMMARY:From Zuni to Boston: Rediscovering Isabel and Larz Anderson's Eclectic Collection
DESCRIPTION:Please Join us for a lecture from Stephen T. Moskey and Isabel L. Taube. \n \nIsabel Weld Perkins (1876–1948) and Larz Anderson (1866–1937) were a wealthy\, well-connected\, cosmopolitan\, and intellectually curious Gilded Age couple who traveled the globe assembling a collection of objects that they displayed in their homes in Brookline\, Massachusetts\, and Washington\, DC. They regarded themselves as citizens of the world and visually reinforced this idea with the arrangements of their collection in their homes. After an introduction to the Andersons’ approach to collecting and displaying objects\, this presentation will explore one case study in depth—their acquisition and arrangement of Native American pots and blankets\, primarily Zuni\, acquired in New Mexico in 1904 with the help of a now-controversial Smithsonian ethnologist\, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849–1915). The speakers were responsible for the 2014 rediscovery of the Andersons’ Native American collection\, once presumed to be lost\, in long-term storage at a Boston museum. The presentation is drawn from an ongoing study of the highly eclectic Gilded Age interiors of both Anderson homes and will include many rare period views of interiors and collections. \n  \n  \n  \nIsabel L. Taube\, PhD\, is an art historian who specializes in Gilded Age art and interior decoration and teaches at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, and the School of Visual Arts\, New York. She has curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary art\, including a multi-venue\, traveling exhibition of Walter Gay’s interior scenes for the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh (2012–2013)\, for which she was the lead author for the catalogue\, Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter Gay (2012). She also serves as Executive Editor for the online journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. \nStephen T. Moskey\, PhD\, is a historical researcher in Washington\, DC\, who specializes in American cultural history\, 1865–1940. His publications include The Turkish Ambassador’s Residence and the Cultural History of Washington\, DC (2013) and Larz and Isabel Anderson: Wealth and Celebrity in the Gilded Age (2016).
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/larz-and-isabel-anderson-wealth-and-celebrity-in-the-gilded-age/
LOCATION:Church of the Holy Trinity\, 316 East 88th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T200000
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SUMMARY:Hidden History of LGBT Victorian New York
DESCRIPTION:The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project\, founded in 2015\, is the first cultural heritage initiative to document historic LGBT spaces in the city’s five boroughs. The panelists will focus on sites from the 1840s to the 1920s. Special attention will be given to the project’s work in amending the National Register of Historic Places nomination of the Alice Austen House in Staten Island. Other sites include Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn residence and the Henry Street Settlement\, co-founded by progressive reformer Lillian Wald\, as well as early bar and social spaces in downtown Manhattan. \nHear Andrew Dolkart\, Ken Lustbader\, Jay Shockley and Amanda Davis speak on the creation of the LGBT Historic Sites Project as well as sites in the Victorian era and their impact on LGBT history.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/hidden-history-of-lgbt-victorian-new-york/
LOCATION:Church of the Holy Trinity\, 316 East 88th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180224T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180224T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T093924
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SUMMARY:Brunch at the Oscar Wilde Bar
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy an alcoholic beverage and a three-course meal in a private room in the ornately decorated Oscar Wilde Bar. \nDuring our brunch\, Russell Needham will enlighten us on how the establishment that celebrates the legendary English author and wit came to be filled with an unusual collection of antiques. The bar is near Tin Pan Alley\, and George Calderaro will describe the initiative to save this historic streetscape. \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 32 participants.\nFees: $65 for Victorian Society New York members\, $75 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Wednesday\, February 15. \n  \n\nOscar Wilde Brunch \n\n\n\nMember $65.00 USDNon-Member $75.00 USD\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/brunch-at-the-oscar-wilde-bar/
LOCATION:Oscar Wilde Bar\, 45 W 27th\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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