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<p>One of the most formidable lawyers of the age, he was selected as the defense attorney for the 1907 New York trial of Harry K. Thaw, wealthy playboy, for the murder of Stanford White, renowned architect. Witnessed by scores of onlookers at the Madison Square Garden roof theater, Thaw fired three shots into White's face, instantly killing him. The motive was Thaw's fury over the earlier, long term dalliance between White and Thaw's new wife Evelyn Nesbit, artists' model and Floradora girl, who became known in the tabloids as the "Girl in the Red Velvet Swing," named for the device installed in White's opulent apartment and used by Evelyn starting at age 16. This reference to her became the title of the 1955 motion picture detailing the crime and the trial. Delmas's defense of Thaw was temporary insanity and was supported by medical testimony claiming that Thaw's fulmination was the result of a "brain storm," thought to be the first time that expression had been used. It became an instant catch word during the trial and ever thereafter, although the meaning has morphed from violence to whimsy. The trial ended with a hung jury; in the second trial Delmas got his client acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity.
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<b>Stanford White</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect" title="Architect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">architect</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and partner in the architectural firm of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKim,Mead%26_White" title="McKim, Mead & White" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">McKim, Mead & White</a>, the frontrunner among<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture" title="Beaux-Arts architecture" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Beaux-Arts</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>firms. He designed a long series of houses for the rich, and various public, institutional, and religious buildings. His design principles embodied the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Renaissance" title="American Renaissance" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Renaissance</a>".
In 1906, White was murdered by millionaire<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Kendall_Thaw" title="Harry Kendall Thaw" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harry Kendall Thaw</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>over White's affair with Thaw's wife, actress<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Nesbit" title="Evelyn Nesbit" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Evelyn Nesbit</a>, leading to a court case which was dubbed "The Trial of the Century" by contemporary reporters.<sup id="cite_ref-thaw_1-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-thaw-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#Residential_properties" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="toctext">Residential properties</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#Murder" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="toctext">Murder</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#Defenses" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="toctext">Defenses</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stanford White was the son of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare" title="Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Shakespearean</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scholar<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grant_White" title="Richard Grant White" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richard Grant White</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Alexina Black Mease (1830–1921). He began his architectural career as the principal assistant to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hobson_Richardson" title="Henry Hobson Richardson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Henry Hobson Richardson</a>, the greatest American architect of the day, creator of a style recognized today as "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardsonian_Romanesque" title="Richardsonian Romanesque" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richardsonian Romanesque</a>". In 1878, White embarked for a year and a half in Europe, and when he returned to New York in September 1879, he joined<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Follen_McKim" title="Charles Follen McKim" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Charles Follen McKim</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rutherford_Mead" title="William Rutherford Mead" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William Rutherford Mead</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to form<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKim,_Mead_and_White" title="McKim, Mead and White" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">McKim, Mead and White</a>.
In 1884, White married twenty-two-year-old Bessie Springs Smith. His new wife hailed from a socially prominent Long Island family; her ancestors were early settlers of the area, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithtown,_New_York" title="Smithtown, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Smithtown, New York</a>was named for them. Their estate, Box Hill was not only a home, but also a showplace illustrating the luxe design aesthetic White offered prospective wealthy clients. A son, Lawrence Grant White was born in 1887.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">White designed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden(1890)" title="Madison Square Garden (1890)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the second Madison Square Garden</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1890; demolished in 1925),<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Cable Building—the Broadway cable car power station (611 Broadway, 1892),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Presbyterian_Church,New_York_City(1906)" title="Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York City (1906)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Madison Square Presbyterian Church</a>, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Herald_Building" title="New York Herald Building" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New York Herald Building</a>(1894; demolished), the First<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowery_Savings_Bank" title="Bowery Savings Bank" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bowery Savings Bank</a>, at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowery,Manhattan" title="Bowery, Manhattan" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the Bowery</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Grand Street, 1894,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Arch" title="Washington Square Arch" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Washington Square Arch</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1889),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judson_Memorial_Church" title="Judson Memorial Church" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Judson Memorial Church</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Washington Square, and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Association" title="Century Association" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Century Club</a>, all in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New York City</a>. He helped develop Tesla's<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower" title="Wardenclyffe Tower" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wardenclyffe Tower</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(his last design). White designed the First Methodist Episcopal Church in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore,Maryland" title="Baltimore, Maryland" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Baltimore, Maryland</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1887), now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovely_Lane_Methodist_Church" title="Lovely Lane Methodist Church" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lovely Lane United Methodist Church</a>. He also designed the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvington,New_York#Points_of_interest" title="Irvington, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cosmopolitan Building</a>, a three-story<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Neo-classical Revival</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>building topped by three small domes, in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvington,New_York" title="Irvington, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Irvington, New York</a>, built in 1895 as the headquarters of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopolitan_Magazine" title="Cosmopolitan Magazine" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cosmopolitan Magazine</a>. He built Cocke, Rouss, and Old Cabell halls at the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of Virginia</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and rebuilt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rotunda(University_of_Virginia)" title="The Rotunda (University of Virginia)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Rotunda (University of Virginia)</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 1898 after it burned down three years earlier (his re-creation was later reverted back to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Thomas Jefferson</a>'s original design for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial" title="United States Bicentennial" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">United States Bicentennial</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 1976). He also designed the Blair Mansion at 7711 Eastern Ave. in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring,Maryland" title="Silver Spring, Maryland" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Silver Spring, Maryland</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1880), now being used as a restaurant. He was also responsible for designing the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Public_Library" title="Boston Public Library" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Boston Public Library</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Hotel_Buckminster" title="Boston Hotel Buckminster" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Boston Hotel Buckminster</a>, both still standing today. In 1902, he designed the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Walworth_Arnold_House_and_Carriage_House" title="Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany,New_York" title="Albany, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Albany, New York</a>.</p>
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In the division of projects within the firm, the sociable and gregarious White landed the majority of commissions for private houses.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His fluent draftsmanship was highly convincing to clients who might not get much visceral understanding from a floorplan, and his intuition and facility caught the mood. White's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Long Island</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>houses have survived well, despite the loss of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Hill" title="Harbor Hill" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harbor Hill</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 1947, originally set on 688 acres (2.78 km<sup style=" line-height: 1em;">2</sup>) in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roslyn,New_York" title="Roslyn, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Roslyn</a>. White's Long Island houses are of three types, depending on their locations:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shore(Long_Island)" title="North Shore (Long Island)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Gold Coast</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau" title="Chateau" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">chateaux</a>, neo-Colonial structures, especially those in the neighborhood of his own house at "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_Hill_Estate" title="Box Hill Estate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Box Hill</a>" in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithtown,New_York" title="Smithtown, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Smithtown, New York</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(White's wife was a Smith), and the South Fork houses from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Southampton</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Point" title="Montauk Point" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Montauk Point</a>. He also designed the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Annette_Wetherill_Estate" title="Kate Annette Wetherill Estate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Kate Annette Wetherill Estate</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in 1895. White designed a number of other New York mansions as well, including the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Oliver_Iselin" title="Charles Oliver Iselin" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Iselin</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>family estate<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_View_Estate" title="All View Estate" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">"All View"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and "Four Chimneys" in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rochelle,New_York" title="New Rochelle, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New Rochelle</a>.
Among his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" title="Newport, Rhode Island" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Newport, Rhode Island</a>, "cottages",<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosecliff" title="Rosecliff" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rosecliff</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(for Mrs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Oelrichs" title="Hermann Oelrichs" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hermann Oelrichs</a>, 1898–1902) adapted<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Hardouin-Mansart" title="Jules Hardouin-Mansart" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mansart</a>'s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Trianon" title="Grand Trianon" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Grand Trianon</a>, but provided this house built for receptions, dinners and dances with fluent spatial planning and well-contrived dramatic internal views<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_filade" title="En filade" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">en filade</a></i>.</p>
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In his "informal" shingled cottages, there were usually double corridors for separate circulation, so that a guest never bumped into a laundress with a basket of bed linens. Bedrooms were characteristically separated from hallways by a dressing-room foyer lined with closets, so that an inner door and an outer door give superb privacy (still the mark of a really good hotel). White lived the same life as his clients, not quite so lavishly perhaps, and he knew how the house had to perform: like a first-rate hotel, theater foyer, or a theater set with appropriate historical references. White was an apt designer, who was ready to do a cover for<i>Scribner's Magazine</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or design a pedestal for his friend<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Saint-Gaudens" title="Augustus Saint-Gaudens" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Augustus Saint-Gaudens</a>' sculpture. He extended the limits of architectural services to include<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior_decoration" title="Interior decoration" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">interior decoration</a>, dealing in art and antiques, and even planning and designing parties. He collected paintings, pottery, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry" title="Tapestry" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">tapestries</a>. If White could not procure the right antiques for his interiors, he would sketch neo-Georgian standing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolier" title="Electrolier" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">electroliers</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or a Renaissance library table. Outgoing and social, he possessed a large circle of friends and acquaintances, many of whom became clients. White had a major influence in the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingle_Style" title="Shingle Style" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Shingle Style</a>" of the 1880s, on Neo-Colonial style, and the Newport cottages for which he is celebrated.
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That evening’s theatrical presentation was the premiere performance of<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mam%27zelle_Champagne" title="Mam'zelle Champagne" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mam'zelle Champagne</a></i>. During the show’s finale, "I Could Love A Million Girls", Thaw approached White, produced a pistol, and standing some two feet from his target, said "You've ruined my wife",<sup id="cite_ref-inside_9-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-inside-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and fired three shots at White, killing him instantly. Part of White’s face was torn away and the rest of his features were unrecognizable, blackened by gunpowder.<sup id="cite_ref-thaw_1-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-thaw-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The initial reaction of the crowd was one of good cheer, as elaborate party tricks among the upper echelon of New York society were common at the time. However, when it became apparent that White was dead, hysteria ensued.</p>
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Thaw, a Pittsburgh millionaire, and a man with a history of severe mental instability, was a jealous husband who saw White as his rival. White had seduced Nesbit when she was sixteen and he was forty-seven years old, and in the years following had remained a potent presence in Nesbit's life.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, by the time he was murdered, White had long since moved on to other lovers,<sup id="cite_ref-inside_9-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-inside-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and it is conjectured that Stanford White himself was unaware of Thaw’s long-standing vendetta against him. White considered Thaw a poseur of little consequence, categorized him as a clown—and most tellingly, called him the “Pennsylvania pug” – a reference to Thaw’s baby-faced features.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The reality was that Thaw both admired and resented White’s social stature. More significantly, he recognized that he and White shared a passion for similar lifestyles. However, unlike Thaw, who had to operate in the shadows, White could carry on without censure, and seemingly, with impunity.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>13<span>]</span></a><span></span></sup></p>
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The nineteen-year old Lawrence Grant White was guilt ridden after his father was slain, blaming himself for his death. “If only he had gone [to Philadelphia]!”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>14<span>]</span></a></sup>Years later, he would write bitterly, "On the night of June 25th, 1906, while attending a performance at Madison Square Garden, Stanford White was shot from behind [by] a crazed profligate whose great wealth was used to besmirch his victim's memory during the series of notorious trials that ensued." White was buried in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.James,New_York" title="St. James, New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">St. James, New York</a>.</p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As early as the morning following the murder, news coverage became both chaotic and single-minded, and ground forward with unrelenting momentum. The newspapers of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst" title="William Randolph Hearst" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William Randolph Hearst</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>played up the murder, and it became known as the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_Century" title="Trial of the Century" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Trial of the Century</a>". The rampant interest in the White murder and its key players was used by both the defense and prosecution in Thaw’s murder trial to feed malleable reporters any "scoops" that would give their respective sides an advantage in the public forum.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>15<span>]</span></a><span></span></sup></p>
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Any person, place or event, no matter how peripheral to White's murder was seized on by reporters and hyped as newsworthy copy. Facts were thin but sensationalist reportage was plentiful in this, the heyday of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_journalism" title="Tabloid journalism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">tabloid journalism</a>. The hard-boiled male reporters were bolstered by a contingent of female counterparts, christened "Sob Sisters", also known as the "Pity Patrol".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a></sup>Their stock and trade was the human-interest piece, heavy on sentimental tropes and melodrama, crafted to pull on the emotions and punch them up to fever pitch.</p>
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Stanford White, in death, was not spared the frenzy of printed invective, which not only excoriated him as a man, but also questioned his professional achievements as architect. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Evening Standard</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>concluded he was “more of an artist than architect,” his work spoke of his “social dissolution.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Nation</i>was also critical: “…He adorned many an American mansion with irrelevant plunder.” The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_press" title="Yellow press" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">yellow press</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>used lurid language to demonize White as “a sybarite of debauchery, a man who abandoned lofty enterprises for vicious revels.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a><span></span></sup>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Few friends or associates came forward to publicly defend White. His close friend, sculptor,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Saint-Gaudens" title="Augustus Saint-Gaudens" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Augustus Saint-Gaudens</a>, was gravely ill and unable to speak out.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harding_Davis" title="Richard Harding Davis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Richard Harding Davis</a>, a war correspondent and reputedly the model for the “Gibson Man,” was angered by the tabloid press, whom, he was adamant, had distorted the facts. An editorial, which appeared in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Vanity Fair</i>, lambasting White and shredding his reputation, prompted Davis to pen his own rebuttal. The article appeared on August 8, 1906 in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier%27s" title="Collier's" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Collier's</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>magazine:</p>
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<p style=" margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Since his death White has been described as a satyr. To answer this by saying that he was a great architect is not to answer at all…what is more important is that he was a most kindhearted, most considerate, gentle and manly man, who could no more have done the things attributed to him than he could have roasted a baby on a spit. Big in mind and in body, he was incapable of little meanness. He admired a beautiful woman as he admired every other beautiful thing God has given us; and his delight over one was as keen, as boyish, as grateful over any others.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_White#cite_note-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a><span></span></sup>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_the_Red_Velvet_Swing_(movie)" title="The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (movie)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1955 movie)</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The 1975 historical fiction novel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime(novel)" title="Ragtime (novel)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ragtime</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.L._Doctorow" title="E. L. Doctorow" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">E. L. Doctorow</a>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The film<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_(movie)" title="Ragtime (movie)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ragtime</a></i>, based on the novel</li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Dementia Americana" – A long narrative poem by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Maillard" title="Keith Maillard" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Keith Maillard</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1994)</li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– play by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Nigro" title="Don Nigro" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Don Nigro</a></li>
<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_fille_coup%C3%A9e_en_deux" title="La fille coupée en deux" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">La fille coupée en deux</a></i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>("The Girl Cut in Two") – movie by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Chabrol" title="Claude Chabrol" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Claude Chabrol</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(2007)</li>
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