Descend into the crypt of St. John the Divine on a special Insiders tour and see remnants of the original Penn Station! Close to 30 incredible estates scattered throughout New York's Hudson River ...
Ernest Hemingway once declared that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” a claim so provocative that Lionel Trilling based an essay on it. Was it ...
The Vanderbilt Mansion is located on 153 acres of land in Hyde Park, New York. The National Park Service offers tours to the ...
It’s a reminder of the 'Gilded Age,' a time of opulence in America; two stately homes fit for the wealthiest citizens of the ...
Columbia University is my alma mater—until recently I was proud of that. When I was there Columbia and its women’s college ...
and William Rutherford Mead to form the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. During the next three decades, until his murder, White would design some of Manhattan's landmark structures ...
White was at the peak of his fame in 1906. He was the most colorful member of McKim, Mead & White, the architects who had given America some of its finest buildings, including the Boston Public ...
Instead of the glory of a full campus-wide commencement, students will retreat to ceremonies for the individual schools ...
We once had a real City Hall. Currently, we are outshined by the one in Schenectady, built in 1931 in the late Georgian ...
The original Pennsylvania Station was a New York City landmark. It was built in 1910 by legendary firm, McKim, Mead & White, and owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Ajay Suresh, CC-BY-2.0 ...
When is a hotel more than a place to sleep? When it’s in a building with a storied past, allowing guests to go back in time ...