Lecture: Untermyer Gardens: Its Periods of Glory and Its Sack
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Stephen F. Byrns, Founder and President of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, will deliver an illustrated lecture on March 30 at the New York School of Interior Design at 170 East 70 Street, New York, NY 10021 at 6:00 PM. Ticket cost is $17.
This is the centennial year of the creation of the gardens. The lecture will cover the glory days of Samuel Untermyer’s estate, Greystone, when it was internationally recognized as one of the greatest gardens in America, and the location of many spectacular social, horticultural and cultural events.
After Untermyer’s death in 1940 and the acquisition of the garden by the City of Yonkers in 1946, the property underwent a long and severe decline, eventually nearly disappearing from public consciousness. Sculptures and ornaments were sacked, and miraculous mosaics left to ruin. A satanic cult was established there, along with the presence of a mass murderer.
Archival photographs, videos, documents and eyewitness accounts from these periods will be shown.
Stephen F. Byrns, Founder and President of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, will deliver an illustrated lecture on March 30 at the New York School of Interior Design at 170 East 70 Street, New York, NY 10021 at 6:00 PM. Ticket cost is $17.
This is the centennial year of the creation of the gardens. The lecture will cover the glory days of Samuel Untermyer’s estate, Greystone, when it was internationally recognized as one of the greatest gardens in America, and the location of many spectacular social, horticultural and cultural events.
After Untermyer’s death in 1940 and the acquisition of the garden by the City of Yonkers in 1946, the property underwent a long and severe decline, eventually nearly disappearing from public consciousness. Sculptures and ornaments were sacked, and miraculous mosaics left to ruin. A satanic cult was established there, along with the presence of a mass murderer.
Archival photographs, videos, documents and eyewitness accounts from these periods will be shown.
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