EVENT: Victorian Society Tours in June
June is tour month for the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America. For more information, see www.metrovsa.org
FORAY INTO FOREST HILLS GARDENS
Saturday, June 3, 1 pm
Jeff Gottlieb, president of the Central Queens Historical Society, will lead a tour of this beautiful Queens neighborhood. Established around 1906, this planned suburban development was designed by Grosvenor Atterbury with landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Highlights will include Station Square (pictured left) with a towered inn and railroad station where Theodore Roosevelt spoke in 1917. The tour will include a peak into the interior of one of the homes on an elegant landscaped, tree-lined street.
$20 for Members — $30 for Nonmembers
Tour Limited to 30 Participants
DEADLINE JUNE 2
EXPLORING THE EXPANSION OF THE SOHO-CAST IRON HISTORIC DISTRICT
Tuesday, June 6, 6 pm
Learn more about the Metropolitan Chapter’s efforts to expand this historic district. Stephen Gottlieb, preservation architect, will lead a twilight tour of the architectural gems that lie just outside the district’s border and that the Chapter is campaigning to have included in the district.
Proceeds of this tour benefit the Margot Gayle Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage
$15 for Members — $25 for Nonmembers
Tour Limited to 20 Participants
DEADLINE JUNE 3
DELANO & ALDRICH ON LONG ISLAND
Grand Mansions of this Prominent Architectural Firm
Saturday, June 17, 2006, 9 a.m
Join Anne Walker, co-author of The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich, to see these grand estates designed by William Delano (1874-1960) and Chester Holmes Aldrich (1871-1940). We will visit Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Studio (1913-15) Still owned by the family and not open to the public, this elegant Palladian villa houses a studio 32 feet in length, murals by Whitney’s artist’s friends and a private terraced garden. In cluded will be a buffet lunch at the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. Established in 1871, this institution is housed in a Colonial Revival building, designed by architect Charles W. Gibson, overlooking the water from its perch on Centre Island. We also visit Nassau Hall (1903-04), formally called Muttontown Meadows. This Colonial Revival house was inspired by Mount Vernon and built for lawyer, Egerton L. Winthrop (1861-1926). The house has a cupola and painted wood milled to look like cut stone. The tour ends at Chelsea (1923-1924). Built for Benjamin Moore (1888-1938), a descendant of Clement Clark Moore, this house combines elements from Chinese manors and French farmhouses to create a picturesque composition using bull’s-eye windows, a moon gate and corner tourelles. The tour ends with a wine & cheese in the courtyard at Chelsea overlooking the moat. All this plus one more great estate that will be added to the tour!
$100* Members –$110* Nonmembers
*Fee includes buffet lunch (soup, sandwiches, salads & deserts) & reception
DEADLINE JUNE 12