Stanford White
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Oct 13, 2026
speaker_5HOST
Let's talk about world-building in retail, starting with a place that genuinely sounds like it was invented for a movie set, Albertine.
AC WilsonHOST
Albertine is a masterpiece of cultural architecture.
speaker_5HOST
Listeners, try to picture this.
speaker_5HOST
You are walking up Fifth Avenue between 78th and 79th Streets, right on the edge of Central Park along Museum Mile.
speaker_5HOST
It's diplomacy through aesthetics.
AC WilsonHOST
Precisely.
AC WilsonHOST
They are using literature, architecture, and a sense of serene luxury to foster Franco-American relations.
AC WilsonHOST
It is essentially a diplomatic salon masquerading as a retail space.
Marlin BressiHOST
Defense Attorney Hirsch procured additional celebrated experts.
Marlin BressiHOST
eugenicist Henry Herbert Goddard, and Dr. William Mabon, a psychiatrist who was a key figure in another trial of the century when wealthy playboy Harry Thaw went on trial for murdering his wealthy playboy rival, Stanford White.
Marlin BressiHOST
Thaw had developed an obsession with White, whom he blamed for corrupting his chorus girl wife, Evelyn Nesbitt.
Marlin BressiHOST
Thaw was eventually found not guilty on grounds of insanity and committed to Mateawan State Hospital in Fishkill, New York.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
This recording is in the public domain.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Thaw Murders Stanford White.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
From The New York Times, dated June twenty-sixth, nineteen oh six.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Recorded for LibriVox.org by Leanne Howlett.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Thaw Murders Stanford White.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Shoots Him on the Madison Square Garden Roof.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
About Evelyn Nesbit.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Audience in a Panic.
Sebastian MajorHOST
But right away, Tesla's designs for this proposed communications tower were noticeably elaborate, to say the least.
Sebastian MajorHOST
With the help of his friend, the architect Stanford White, Tesla created plans for what he called the Wardenclyffe Global Communication Center.
Sebastian MajorHOST
He imagined this communication center as being surrounded by a futuristic city that would house the station's thousands of workers.
Sebastian MajorHOST
In the center of this gleaming town of tomorrow would be Tesla's great tower, a massive 600-foot broadcasting tower two-thirds the height of the recently built Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
Doing it the other way.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
As George enlisted Stanford White as the architect of the project, which is major for him, he is there and talking to all the Russells after the event is over.
Kimberley SheltonHOST
And then although he's concerned about his father's response, Larry takes this opportunity to announce that he would like to become an architect.
Cindy BrownHOST
Yeah.
Madeline PorsellaGUEST
And it's about this scandal.
Madeline PorsellaGUEST
Stanford White, the architect, had this affair with a Gibson girl.
Mabel Capability TaylorGUEST
And her hair is so thick.
Mabel Capability TaylorGUEST
I'm
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
This recording is in the public domain.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Thaw murders Stanford White from the New York Times, dated June 26, 1906.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Recorded for LibriVox.org by Leanne Howlett.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Thaw murders Stanford White.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Shoots him on the Madison Square Garden roof about Evelyn Nesbit.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
He ruined my wife, witness says he said.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Audience in a panic.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Chairs and tables are overturned in a wild scramble for the exits.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
This recording is in the public domain.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Thaw Murders Stanford White from The New York Times, dated June twenty-sixth, nineteen oh six.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Recorded for LibriVox.org by Leanne Howlett.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Thaw Murders Stanford White.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Shoots Him on the Madison Square Garden Roof.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
About Evelyn Nesbit.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Audience in a Panic.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Chairs and Tables Are Overturned in a Wild Scramble for the Exits.