The architect of desire : beauty and danger in the Stanford White family / Suzannah Lessard.

Main entry:

Lessard, Suzannah.

Title & Author:

The architect of desire : beauty and danger in the Stanford White family / Suzannah Lessard.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Dial Press, [1996]
© 1996

Description:

334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
The place -- Opals -- The red cottage -- Comfort -- Box Hill -- Stanford -- The boys -- Fame -- Music -- Rokeby -- Rome -- Danger -- Boat -- Silence -- Windmill -- Beauty -- Grace -- Architecture -- Envoi.

Summary:

Stanford White, the premier architect of the Gilded Age, was murdered in 1906 by a jealous husband. Lessard, White's great-granddaughter, investigates the murder and her family's past.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0385314450
9780385314459

Subject:

White, Stanford, 1853-1906.
Nesbit, Evelyn, 1884-1967.
Thaw, Harry Kendall, 1871-1947.
Lessard, Suzannah.
White, Stanford.
Murder New York (State) New York.
Meurtre New York (État) New York.
Murder
Homicide.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

True crime stories
Books.
Récits criminels.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126968
Call No.: ID NA44.W588; ID:97-B122
Status: Available

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