Mansions of the Gilded Age Symposium

From Tiffany to McKim, Meade and White, this symposium of five speakers concludes with a behind-the-scenes reception in the mansion.

• 9:00 AM - Special Tour of Lyndhurst Mansion - SOLD OUT  - regular guided tour also offered during lunch break at 12:30 pm
  Executive Director Howard Zar leads a tour through the first and second floor of Lyndhurst mansion exclusively for symposium participants. Purchase a combined symposium and tour ticket and receive half off the regular tour price.

• 10:00 AM - Fifth Avenue Châteaux: Fifth Avenue’s Glorious French Mansions During the Gilded Age - Gary Lawrance
  
  


• 11:15 AM - Three Parlors by Pottier & Stymus - Walter G. Ritchie, Jr.
  
  


• 12:30 PM Lunch Break
  Optional guided mansion tour with Lyndhurst docent (Tour with Howard Zar is sold out)

• 1:30 PM - The Tiffany Empire - Frank Maraschiello
  
  


• 2:45 PM - The Domestic and Landscape Architecture of “Weld” – A Gilded Age Country Estate (1887-1948) - Stephen T. Moskey
  
  


• 4:00 PM - Art Collecting in the Gilded Age:  the Taste of the Gentleman Collector - Lynn Villency Cohen
  
  


• 5:00 PM - Champagne Reception - Free for all symposium participants

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