Hybrid: Nassau County Historical Society: Mosette Broderick "McKim, Mead and White and the Creation of an Imagined American Aristocracy"

Program Type:

Lecture, Sponsored by a Community Group

Age Group:

Adults
Registration for this event will be open from January 31, 2025 @ 4:00pm to February 23, 2025 @ 2:00pm.

Program Description

Description

As Americans assembled money in the late 1800s, a need to appear grander accompanied the wealth, leading to the transference of European grandeur to the United States. The architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White designed for this new “American Aristocracy” mansions on Long Island, New York City, Newport, and beyond. Among their iconic local commissions were Harbor Hill in Roslyn and the Garden City Hotel. Our speaker, Mosette Broderick, is a Professor of Art History at New York University where she teaches courses in architecture and urbanism. She is the author of Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America’s Gilded Age and Fifth Avenue: History of America's Street of Dreams (2024).

Refreshments will follow the in-person program at the library.

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