Mansions of the Gilded Age Symposium

10am-5pm, followed by a cocktail reception in the mansion tower (separate ticket),

A Symposium curated by Gary Lawrance

The Symposium will feature six esteemed speakers on topics of Gilded Age architecture, interior design, fashion, travel, and society.

Gary Lawrance, Architect, Author, and Historian: Houses of the Hamptons 1880-1930

Robert B. King, Author/Photographer and Historian: Lost Vanderbilt Homes along Fifth Avenue

Ulysses Dietz, Chief Curator of Newark Museum: Jewelry in the Gilded Age

Caroline Rennolds Milbank, Fashion Historian: Gilded Age Fashion

Walter G. Ritchie, Jr., Decorative Arts Specialist and Architectural Historian: “Furniture of the Gilded Age”

Leighton Hammond Coleman III, Spedden Family Archivist: The World of Daisy Corning Stone Spedden: Edwardian Diarist, Titanic Survivor, & Children’s Book Author