"Stanford White (1853-1906), arguably the most celebrated American architect of his day, was the visionary genius of the illustrious architecture firm McKim, Me

As colorful as the buildings he designed, Stanford White infused the architectural scene of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with his flamboyan

Baker, working with previously unpublished materials, breathes new life into this legendary man who dominated American architecture at the turn of the twentieth

In this extraordinary story the author digs and digs until she finds the whole story. Along the way she discovers that not only was her great-grandfather murder

The story of Stanford White--his scandalous affair with the 16-year-old actress Evelyn Nesbit, his murder in 1906 by her husband, the millionaire Harry K. Thaw,