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Showing posts with label Gould Memorial Library. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Gould Memorial Library. Show all posts

Monday, February 28, 2011

Helen Gould's Secret Gift - Stanford White's 1899 Gould Memorial Library

When financier Jay Gould died in 1892, he not only left his four children a fortune estimated at between $65 and $70 million, he left a...

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Tom Miller: Born in Dayton, Ohio, I relocated to New York city in 1978. An author, blogger, lecturer and historian, I have written the histories of more than 5,000 locations in Manhattan (as of March 2025). I am the author of "Seeking New York" and "Seeking Chicago," and contributed to several other books, and consulted for pieces in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, and similar publications..

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