'The Lost Free-Standing Gilded Age Mansions of Riverside Drive' Webinar

Tickets: $18.88 ( incl. $3.88 fees ) (includes access to the full replay for one week)

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Long before Riverside Drive was lined with prewar apartments, it was the site of New York’s most extravagant architectural statement: the free‑standing mansion. Why did Gilded Age titans abandon Fifth Avenue for this untamed stretch along the Hudson — and what became of their stone castles, iron façades, and manicured estates? From explosive scandals to château-sized showpieces, it's time to uncover the forgotten legacy of Manhattan’s grandest lost homes.

Join New York Adventure Club as we explore the grand free-standing mansions of Riverside Drive that once stood as icons of Gilded Age opulence, but have since been lost to time.

Led by historian Tom Miller, our unique experience surrounding the architecture and social history of these homes will include:

• A look at Samuel G. Bayne’s stately mansion at 108th Street, one of the earliest homes to transform Riverside Drive into a magnet for Gilded Age wealth
• The shocking 1903 Black Hand attack on Peter Doelger’s home, revealing the hidden dangers that followed even the city’s most powerful brewers
• An overview of John Matthews’s distinctive Shingle Style mansion, built by the man known as “The Soda Water King”
• A spotlight on New York’s only cast iron free-standing residence, a singular architectural outlier among Riverside’s stone-clad giants
• An exploration of the colossal Charles Schwab Mansion, a full-block château that rivaled European palaces in both scale and ambition

Afterward, we'll have a Q&A with Tom — any and all questions are welcomed and encouraged!
Can't make it live? Don't worry, you'll have access to the full replay for one week.
See you there, virtually!

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About Tom
Architectural and social historian Tom Miller is the author of Seeking New York, Seeking Chicago, as well as the popular blog “Daytonian in Manhattan.” Since 2009 Tom has published a blog post on a different Manhattan location every day — now totaling nearly 4,600.
His research and reporting focus as much on the social histories of the buildings — the tragedies and sorrows, triumphs and scandals of the people who built and lived in the houses — as on their architecture and styles.
Tom Miller’s retelling of these stories make the buildings come alive; and suddenly they are more than brick, marble, and limestone, but the histories of real people.

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Categories: Virtual, Gilded Age