witnesses at the rooftop theater of Madison Square Garden( designed by White), millionaire Harry Thaw shot White in a jealous rage over Thaw ' s actress wife, Evelyn Nesbit. The ensuing“ trial of the century” gripped the nation ' s headlines for more than a year, and Thaw ultimately pled not guilty by reason of insanity.
Saint-Gaudens mourned his beloved friend’ s untimely death. He wrote in a letter to Collier ' s magazine,“ As the weeks pass, the horror of the miserable taking away of this big friend looms up more and more. It is unbelievable that we shall never see him again going about among us with his astonishing vitality, enthusiasm and force. In the thirty years that the friendship between him and me endured, his almost feminine tenderness to friends in suffering and his generosity to those in trouble or want stand out most prominently.”
Gus and Stan’ s old client, Henry Adams, who wanted to bludgeon them to death back in 1891, long outlived them. In the summer and autumn of 1916, in his late-70s, he rented Ashintully in Tyringham. Here in“ the swellest house and [ with ] the most guests I ever did have,” he reveled in the great Palladian house designed by Francis Hoppin, protégé of White. n
Henry Wiencek will lecture on Stan and Gus: Art Ardor and the Friendship that Built the Gilded Age at The Mount in Lenox on Wednesday, July 30, at 5 p. m. For more information and to buy tickets, go to edithwharton. org.
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