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Daytonian in Manhattan: Stanford White's Lost 1900 Madison Square Garden Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit, New York City Pictures, Penn Station, Old New York, Entertainment District, The Gilded Age, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, City Pictures

Madison Square Garden around 1910 -- postcard from author's collection In 1874, as the New York entertainment district cropped up along 23rd Street in the post-Civil War years, P. T. Barnum converted a railroad freight warehouse on Madison Square and 26th Street for larger-than-life open air entertainments. In true Barnum fashion, he called the venue the “Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome.” Not exactly a name that rolled easily off the tongue. William K. Vanderbilt took over the…

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