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    Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most...
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    multimillion-dollar fortune, he is most notable for murdering the renowned architect Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of New York...
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    scion Harry Kendall Thaw on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906. As a model, Nesbit was frequently...
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    Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded...
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    The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment performed during August 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment...
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    co-founded by his father Stanford White, and for five years the president of the National Academy of Design. Lawrence White, who was known as Larry, was...
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    the original, 94 by 94 ft (29 by 29 m), brick building designed by Stanford White remains standing. In the 1980s and 2000s, hazardous waste from the photographic...
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    Follen McKim (1847–1909), William Rutherford Mead (1846–1928), and Stanford White (1853–1906), were giants in the architecture of their time, and remain...
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    Leland Stanford Jr. (May 14, 1868 – March 13, 1884), known as Leland DeWitt Stanford until he was nine, was the only son of American industrialist and...
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    Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California...
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    Stanford is a census-designated place (CDP) in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is the home of Stanford University...
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  • mean anything." In 1907, Harry K. Thaw was tried for the murder of Stanford White. Irvin S. Cobb, a contemporary reporter, explained why the trial fascinated...
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    Childe Hassam when it was at the Stewart Mansion. On June 26, 1906, Stanford White was shot dead by Harry K. Thaw, the eccentric millionaire, after leaving...
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    des Champs. Stanford White designed the pedestal. It was unveiled on May 25, 1881, in Madison Square Park. He collaborated with Stanford White again in 1892–94...
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    neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Stanford White in 1891, it commemorates the centennial of George Washington's 1789...
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  • Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry Kendall Thaw, Admiral Peary, Matthew Henson, and Emma Goldman...
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    They had two children: Richard Mansfield White (1851–1925), who was named after his father. Stanford White (1853–1906), a prominent Beaux-Arts architect...
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    The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB or simply GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private...
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    The Stanford Tree is the Stanford Band's mascot and the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "Cardinal", referring to the...
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  • house designed by architect Stanford White.[citation needed] Born Mabel Janice Busby, in Baker City, Oregon in 1903. Stanford moved to San Francisco in...
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    the building of its plinth, constructing Washington Square Arch and Stanford White's Madison Square Garden. King was born in New York City in 1849, the...
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    "dungeon" basement. The castle was initially designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White, a famous New York architectural firm at the time. There...
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    received sensational attention after his father fatally shot architect Stanford White in 1906 in front of a large crowd. Harry Thaw spent the next several...
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    Thorn Vanderbilt and their families. Demolished. Woodlea (1892–1895), a Stanford White–designed country estate in Scarborough, New York, now the Sleepy Hollow...
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  • horses. In 1902, his son and heir John Jacob Astor IV commissioned Stanford White to design a large sports pavilion (called the "Ferncliff Casino"), which...
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    mansion of 1864 was partly rebuilt in 1904 to designs by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White. The house retained its conservative exterior, and a separate...
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    Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 – February 28, 1905) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University in 1885 (opened...
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    burning of the Rotunda in 1895, the firm of McKim, Mead, and White and its architect Stanford White was hired to rebuild the Rotunda and to create new academic...
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    brighter Cardinal red was chosen as Stanford's official color by an assembly of the university's first students in 1891. White was adopted as a secondary color...
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  • and John Ratzenberger. At the turn of the 20th century, architect Stanford White unveils a nude statue atop Madison Square Garden, modeled after former...
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