The Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America 57th Annual Meeting   Rutgers Presbyterian Church 236 West 73rd Street New York, NY 10023 Tickets Here!! All are welcome at […]

Women, Egyptology, and Gilded Age New York   The Center at West Park 165 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024 Tickets Here!! Women built American Egyptology. When Britons Amelia […]

Rediscovering Architect-Trailblazer E. G. W. Dietrich   The Center at West Park 165 West 86th Street New York, NY 10024 $7.18 members / $12.51 general public Tickets Here!! Ernest George […]

Keeping It Real: How Bob Shaw, Production Designer of "The Gilded Age," Resurrects Nineteenth-Century New York   Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 $50.00 members (plus […]

A presentation by Richard Guy Wilson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at University of Virginia and Director of the Newport Summer School A major American design creation in the […]

Scholar Sara Catterall will discuss her new biography of the oft-misinterpreted activist Amelia Bloomer. Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) is best known now for the garments that bear her name. But rational […]

The Victorian Society New York’s 2025 Emerging Scholars winners will shed light on little-known yet influential aspects of Gilded Age history, literature, international trade, and design. Center at West Park […]

All are welcome at our annual meeting, awards showcase, and reception! Current members, new members, and guests are invited to join us at our Annual Meeting, where we will vote […]

Pat Hoerth Batchelder, author of the new book Evelyn Beatrice Longman, The Woman Who Sculpted Golden Boy, Thomas Edison, and Other Monuments, has mined long-forgotten archives to explore how Longman arose from […]

Join the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America (Victorian Society New York) for its annual Margot Gayle Fundraiser! This year we will enjoy a private tour of an […]

Join popular tour guide Stephanie Azzarone for a fascinating tour of Riverside Drive—best known for elegance and quiet. But behind its serene facades lie secrets, from intriguing architectural details to […]

Join us this Bastille Day for a fun and enlightening talk about “French Flats,” which first began to appear in New York not long after the Civil War, and by […]

Tour the exhibition Alexander Jackson Davis: Designer of Dreams with the Director of Lyndhurst and enjoy a private tea in the Carriage House! Lyndhurst is a National Historic Landmark located […]

In Conversation with Anthony C. Wood and Robert Jaeger on Wood's new book Servant of Beauty: Landmarks, Secret Love and the Uniminaged Life of an Unsung New York Hero Anthony […]

Scholars Kate Culkin and Patricia Valenti will discuss the role of biography in recovering the lives and contributions of 19th-century women, in conjunction with the publication of Culkin’s Emerson’s Daughters: […]

In celebration of the late Jeffrey A. Kroessler's book Rural County, Urban Borough: A History of Queens (Rutgers U. Press, 2025), his widow, Laura Heim, will discuss with Eve Kahn […]

Independent scholar and New York Times contributor Eve M. Kahn in conversation with scholar and podcaster Carl Raymond about her new book. Kahn will explore her seven-year Zoe Anderson Norris […]

Join us for a walk through Prospect Park, where we'll discover lost features and why their disappearance matters. “Finding Prospect Park,” a historical discovery tour sponsored by the Victorian Society […]

In 1870, Alfred Beach secretly built a subway under Broadway, only to have Boss Tweed find out—and kill it. Matthew Algeo, author of the new book New York's Secret Subway: […]