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Margot Gayle Fund Grant Application Deadline

Margot Gayle with the Jefferson Market Courthouse. February 14th (Valentines Day) is the deadline to apply to be considered for a Margot Gayle Fund grant.  For more information see the Margot Gayle Fund page.  

The New American Opalescent Color

Jefferson Market Library 425 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States

“The New American Opalescent Color: Newport, Chicago, and England”, a lecture by Richard Guy Wilson, Director, VSA Newport Summer School and Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History, University of Virginia. This event will be held at the Jefferson Market Library, 425 Avenue of the Americas New York City. Seating is limited. Please RSVP by Monday, February […]

YOUNG VICTORIANS TOUR: The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

The Neustadt Collection 5-26 46th Aveune, Long Island City , NY, United States

Please join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass - a premier collection of Louis C. Tiffany's renowned lamps, windows, metalwork and rare archival materials. Lindsay Parrott, Director and Curator, and Morgan Albahary, Curatorial and Collections Assistant, will lead Young Victorian patrons on a tour of the The Neustadt's unique […]

Rescheduled for Feb 23rd! – The {Disputed} Glories of the High Victorian Garden

The English Speaking Union 144 E 39th St, New York, NY, United States

Munstead Wood, Gertrud Jekyl Garden, photo by Kathleen Bennett. PLEASE NOTE: This event has been rescheduled from its original date.  It will take place on February 23rd. New horticultural imports, exciting technological innovations, controversies over color theory, patterns and lay-out all characterize this period. Owners and their head gardeners looked to former historical styles (especially […]

Remembering Victorian Women

The English Speaking Union 144 E 39th St, New York, NY, United States

Cover of Ms. Murdoch’s Book From imaginings of the “Angel in the House” to falsely attributed accounts of the Queen’s advice to “lie back and think of England,” popular representations of Victorian women tend to fall into overly simplified gender distinctions. Current society perceives Victorian women as corseted and caged in crinolines, protected from the […]

Little Syria: A Tour of Downtown Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood

Little Syria on Manhattan’s Lower West Side was the first major Arab Settlement in the United States. In conjunction with an Arab American Museum exhibition at The Metropolitan College of New York, Joe Svehlak will guide us through what remains of one of New York’s oldest melting pot immigrant communities, home to his own Moravian […]

Margot Gayle Fundraiser

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church 346 W 20th St, New York, United States

The Victorian Society New York invites you to a program to benefit the Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage. Monday, March 20, 2017, 6:30 p.m. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church 346 West 20th Street New York City We will be presenting: - Our Vanishing Legacy, a documentary with commentary from Director Gordon Hyatt […]

Behind the Scenes: Central Park Arsenal Tour

Central Park Arsenal 830 Fifth Avenue , New York , NY, United States

Join Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Art and Antiquities at the New York City Parks Department, for a tour of The Arsenal (1847-1851)including a trip to the roof! The Arsenal, now the Parks Department headquarters, the Central Park building has a rich history of past uses, including a stint as the American Museum of Natural History. The […]