In 1901, the lovely 16-year-old model and actress Evelyn Nesbit became the mistress of wealthy New York architect Stanford White. Evelyn was forced into an intimate relationship with White after he ...

The publication of “The Girl on the Velvet Swing” comes at a time when sexual harassment is being taken seriously and punished in a way never seen before. Everyday women are speaking out, telling the ...

FOR 17-YEAR-OLD Evelyn Nesbit, 1903 had started as a pleasant respite from her hectic life in the public eye in New York City. She was, temporarily, a student in a boarding school for girls in New ...

Evelyn Nesbit was a 20th-Century Helen of Troy. Considered the most beautiful woman in America, Nesbit was taken from her husband by a jealous lover and, like Helen, this love triangle had deadly ...

Recently, I sat down with a young real estate executive to talk about an office building his company had bought and renovated to fit the style and tastes of the modern creative-class worker. In a more ...

In New York City, in the year 1906, Stanford White was America’s most famous architect. His firm’s buildings helped define the Gilded Age, a time of great wealth and excess, the dawn of the 20th ...

News that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had attempted to commit suicide in a Chicago apartment house reached The Star early this morning ...

If you've ever wanted to spend a few minutes with a 1905 supermodel and chat about her leading role in America's first Crime of the Century, stop by Allegheny Cemetery on the afternoon of June 21 and ...

Famous by her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Gibson Girl Evelyn Nesbit was the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty. Women wanted to be her. Men ...