Babylon Historical Society hosts : "The Stanford White Murder" presented by Marsha Collock

Name: Babylon Historical Society hosts : "The Stanford White Murder" presented by Marsha Collock
Start: 2025-10-26T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-26T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Village of Babylon Historical & Preservation Society

Schedule

Sun Oct 26 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Village of Babylon Historical & Preservation Society | Babylon, NY

The architect, the millionaire and "the girl in the red velvet swing" is the cliche for the 1906 Gilded Age murder and resulting in the trial of Harry Kendall Thaw for the public murder of Stanford White at Madison Square Garden over model and actress Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Presenter Marsha Collock will explore the Gilded Age conditions and lifestyles of New York City and beyond that made this real-life story more dramatic than any fiction.
This event is free and open to the public.