2013年3月19日 · Bennett was obsessed with owls, and New York's premier architect and womanizing voluptuary, Stanford White, built the Herald building complete with 26 owls atop the roof, each with glowing...

2021年6月30日 · The man Bennett chose to design his ostentatious mausoleum was Stanford White, a brilliant architect and highly controversial character from the prestigious company McKim, Mead and White. This firm had already designed such notable edifices as Columbia University, the Brooklyn Museum and the second Madison Square Garden and would go on to ...

2015年7月2日 · Architect Stanford White was murdered while attending a performance of “Mam’zelle Champagne” on the rooftop theatre of the old Madison Square Garden.

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 significant Beaux-Arts firms at the turn of the 20th century. White designed many houses for the wealthy, in addition to numerous civic, institutional and religious buildings.

2012年11月5日 · Bennett’s owl infatuation would culminate a few years later when he called upon Stanford White again to design a 125-foot tall stone owl for his Washington Heights estate. The towering sculpture would stand on a 75-foot pedestal and was designed to …

2016年5月10日 · Owls were also a particular obsession of Bennett Jr., who commissioned Stanford White to build a 125-foot owl statue that would hold his future coffin. Image via Wikimedia Commons....

2022年9月30日 · And there's at least one of the bronze owls that once decorated the Herald Building in the Square, whose eyes still glow green after dark. Bennett was obsessed with owls, convinced that one hooting saved his life, waking him in time to avert disaster.

2015年8月2日 · The story begins almost 110 years ago when, in an attempt to secure immortality, heir to the New York Herald publishing fortune James Bennett Gordon, Jr. commissioned the most sought after architect of the day, Stanford White, to …

2021年5月28日 · The crimes and murder of starchitect Stanford White, who was shot in cold blood by an avenging husband, could be New York society’s greatest-ever scandal

2014年12月19日 · At the exquisitely designed but now-demolished New York Herald Building, on the site of what’s now Herald Square, White merged an Italian Renaissance form with modern functions. It shone like a beacon – by means of the bronze owls atop its roofline, their eyes aglow at night. While they gazed out, passersby could peer in.