Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Everyone Should Have a Red Velvet Swing

Evelyn Nesbitt. Infamous New York chorus girl in the teens and 20's. Met architect Stanford White when she was 16 and he was 47. He often spent his evening watching teenage girls take a ride on his storied red velvet swing in his room of mirrors. Years later her husband shot him in the face on the roof of Madison Square Garden, which he designed.

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