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SUMMARY:Newport and Stained Glass: La Farge\, Tiffany and More
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Richard Guy Wilson\, Ph.D.\, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at University of Virginia and Director of the Newport Summer School\nA major American design creation in the later 19th century was the stained glass window. The work of John La Farge and Louis Comfort Tiffany pioneered opalescent stained glass but there were other types that appeared in houses\, churches and public buildings. This talk will examine some of these windows in Newport and elsewhere\, some of which is seen in the Victorian Society Summer School. \nThe event will include remarks about the Victorian Society Summer Schools in Newport\, Chicago\, and London\, which first started back in 1974\, and include brief presentations by recent program graduates. There will be a reception following the presentations. \nDraesel Hall of the Church of the Holy Trinity\n316 E 88th Street\nNew York\, NY 10128 \nRegister here\n \nThe event is cosponsored by the Alumni Association of the Victorian Society Summer Schools\, the Victorian Society in America\, the Victorian Society New York\, the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts\, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy. \n📷 John La Farge\, “Trompe L’Oeil” window 1882–84; Photo courtesy of Richard Guy Wilson \n📷 Richard Guy Wilson; Photo courtesy of Richard Guy Wilson
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/newport-and-stained-glass-la-farge-tiffany-and-more/
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SUMMARY:The Decorated Tenement
DESCRIPTION:Zachary J. Violette focuses on what he calls the “decorated tenement\,” a wave of new buildings constructed by immigrant builders and architects who remade the slum landscapes of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the North and West Ends of Boston in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on research and fieldwork of more than three thousand extant tenement buildings\, Violette uses ornament as an entry point to reconsider the role of tenement architects and builders (many of whom had deep roots in immigrant communities) in improving housing for the working poor. \nUtilizing specially commissioned contemporary photography\, and many never-before-published historical images\, The Decorated Tenement complicates monolithic notions of architectural taste and housing standards while broadening our understanding of the diversity of cultural and economic positions of those responsible for shaping American architecture and urban landscapes.  \n  \n  \nZachary Violette has a PhD in American and New England Studies from Boston University. His first book\, The Decorated Tenement: How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age(University of the Minnesota Press\, 2019)\, is the winner of the 2019 Fred Kniffen Award from the International Society of Place\, Landscape\, and Material Culture. Violette is the recipient of the 2019 short-term H. Allan Brooks Traveling Fellowship for travel in Central Europe. He serves on the Board of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and is a lecturer at Parsons/The New School of Design in New York. He is currently researching a follow-up volume to The Decorated Tenement on the inner suburban apartment house in the early twentieth century \n  \nPlease note reception will be post lecture\, 7:30 p.m. \nTickets may be purchased here \n  \n 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-decorated-tenement/
LOCATION:The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen\, 20 W 44th St\, New York\, NY\, 10036\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191208
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SUMMARY:Holiday Open Houses North Of NYC
DESCRIPTION:Our bus tour to Newburgh will take us into 10 sites that will be decorated for the holidays. The first “open house” on our tour will be one we visited before—but in an undecorated state—the former David Crawford mansion. It is now a museum and the headquarters of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay & the Highlands. Our bus will then take us to nine privately owned sites. In the course of the afternoon we’ll see architectural gems\, mansions and rehabilitated homes and some of Newburgh’s most important landmarks. A booklet that will be given to every tour participant will provide a history of each property to be visited. An early lunch at a Newburgh restaurant will precede the visits to the open houses. \n  \n  \n  \nThis tour is limited to 34 participants. \nFees: $155 for Victorian Society New York members\, $185 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Friday\, November 29. \nTickets can be purchased here 
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/holiday-open-houses-north-of-nyc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190311T203000
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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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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:20190207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190207T193000
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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;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181206T200000
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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;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
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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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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:20180602T091500
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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: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:20171202T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171202T083000
DTSTAMP:20260503T083139
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SUMMARY:Holiday Cheer In Bethlehem\, PA
DESCRIPTION:Bethlehem\, PA street decorated for the holidays. Photo courtesy of www.HistoricBethlehem.org \n  \nHoliday Cheer In Bethlehem\, PA \nBethlehem\, PA\, calls itself Christmas City\, USA and posts decorated trees on nearly every street during the holiday season. At the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem\, housed in a 1741 log structure\, we’ll learn about the early days in the settlement—and have to climb a flight of stairs because there is no elevator. Next we will make quick stops inside the 1744 Single Sisters’ House\, Apothecary and Nain-Schober House (a Native American structure)—all featuring individually decorated trees. \n  \nAfter lunch\, we will visit a decorative arts museum that has a collection of doll houses with Victorian era examples from the U.S.\, Britain and France. Our tour will end at the Christkindlmarkt\, said to be the largest holiday market in the U.S. Even if you don’t want to shop\, you can enjoy ice carvings and browse the stalls to see handcrafted items and imported goods and ornaments. Or you can relax with Pennsylvania Dutch snacks and listen to music provided by various vocal and instrumental groups. \n  \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nHoliday Cheer\n\n\nMember $135.00 USDNon-Member $175.00 USD\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/holiday-cheer-in-bethlehem-pa/
LOCATION:Bethlehem\, PA\, Bethlehem\, PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T140000
DTSTAMP:20260503T083139
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Grid: Manhattan's Audubon Park Neighborhood
DESCRIPTION:Audubon Park in February 1899 with six houses recently completed by builder Francis J. Snugg. Photo courtesy of Matthew Spady and Scott Robinson. \nBeyond the Grid: Manhattan’s Audubon Park Neighborhood \nFrom 1841-1864\, the 21 acres north of 155th street were the farmstead of John James Audubon\, who is remembered for his paintings of America’s birds. Audubon Park Alliance Director Matthew Spady will lead a tour of this historic district focusing on such architectural gems as the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, streets of 19th century row houses and Trinity Cemetery. \n  \nThe tour will conclude with a reception in the grand lobby of the Grinnell Apartments. \nThis walking tour is limited to 30 participants.                                      \nFees: $25 for Victorian Society New York members\, $40 for nonmembers\nPaid reservations must be received by Monday\, October 16 \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nAudubon park\n\n\nMember $25.00 USDNon-Member $40.00 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/beyond-the-grid-manhattans-audubon-park-neighborhood/
LOCATION:Audubon Park
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170916T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170916T173000
DTSTAMP:20260503T083139
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SUMMARY:Olmsted's Trenton Designs
DESCRIPTION:House built in 1911 in Cadwalader Heights. Photo courtesy of Cadwalader Heights Neighborhood Association \n  \nOlmsted’s Trenton Designs\nSaturday\, September 16\, \n10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. \nAfter an early lunch in Trenton\, NJ\, this bus tour will take us to Cadwalader Park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1890-92. His plan for the park left intact Ellerslie\, an 1848 Italianate villa that is now the Trenton City Museum. An exhibit about Olmsted and his work will be on display there. Olmsted also planned the layout of a residential area\, Cadwalader Heights\, that is adjacent to the park. \nIn addition to being able to see the exhibit and explore the park\, tour participants will have the opportunity to enter as many as 10 houses on self-guided walks in Cadwalader Heights. The houses range from cottage to castle in a variety of styles from Colonial Revival to Tudor Revival. \n  \nThis tour is limited to 34 participants.\nFees: $120 for Victorian Society New York members\, $150 for others\nPaid reservations must be received by Wednesday\, September 6 \n  \n\n \n\n\n\nOlmsted Trenton Tour\n\n\nMember $120.00 USDNon-Member $150.00 USD\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/olmsteds-trenton-designs/
LOCATION:Trenton\, New Jersey\, Trenton\, New Jersey
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170603T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170603T173000
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Media Mix
DESCRIPTION:Provident National Bank\, built 1900 by Albert Dilks \n  \nMedia\, PA was incorporated in 1850 at the same time it was named the county seat of Delaware County. Located 13 miles west of Philadelphia\, Media retains numerous architectural treasures from the Victorian era. Our tour will explore the grounds of the Delaware County courthouse built in 1851-71. On a walking through the State Street Historic District and Legal Row we will stop and tour the Institute of Science building that dates from 1867. We will visit a Victorian home dating from the 1860s and The Media Presbyterian Church completed in 1855. The first church constructed in Media\, it was designed in classic Greek Revival style by John McArthur\, architect of the Philadelphia City Hall. \nDr. Samuel Lemon\, the author of Go Stand upon This Rock (2014)\, will give a talk on the Campbell AME Church (that came directly out of The Mother Bethel Church) and his Quaker/African American history of Media from the Civil War until the early 1920s. Lunch will be at Lotus Farm to Table. Residents proudly call Media “Everybody’s Hometown.” This is much more than a slogan. It describes a real state of mind. \n  \nPAID RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR THIS TOUR \nThis tour is limited to 47 participants.\nFees: $120 for Victorian Society New York members\, $150 for nonmembers\nPaid reservations must be received by Wednesday\, May 24 \nPlease indicate vegetarian\, chicken or fish for lunch option\, when making reservation. \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\, 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. \nTo become a member and enjoy lower rate for tours\, please go to our website: www vicsocny.org. \nChecks payable to Metropolitan Chapter VSA and should be mailed to:\nTours\, Metropolitan Chapter VSA\n232 East 11th Street\nNew York\, New York 10003 \nOnline Payment can be made here \n  \n\n\n \n\n\nMedia PA Tour\n\n\nNon-Member Pricing $150.00 USDMember Pricing $120.00 USD \n\n\nLunch Options\n\n\nVegetarian Chicken Salmon
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/exploring-the-media-mix/
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