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William Goadby Loew House 56 E. 93rd St is on list of NY Registered Historic places.

Previously Miss Florence B Baker? query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B04E1D9133CE433A...

Wow – that New York Times write-up of the (April, 1898) wedding was a trip! They had a 50-piece orchestra in the church to play the wedding music. A "breakfast reception", immediately following, at the home of the bride's parents (258 Madison Avenue) ... where "a light breakfast was served to 500 people" ... former President and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison were in attendance. They sailed on the Britannic for their two-month honeymoon in Europe ... (looks like there was enough money to go around). That would have been a hell of a wedding to shoot carrying around 4x5 cameras. (Another photo of Mrs. Loew here.)

Whoa! All for the low price cost of $300.00 - (joking) compared to today's cost which would be about $3 mil for that. What a party that would have been.

I did some research and found she is Florence Bellows Baker Loew. I started an entry in Wikipedia for her: Florence Bellows Baker Loew (1876–1936) was a horse woman and philanthropist and award winning horticulturist. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bellows_Baker

Five cars and a horse trough - those were the days!

nice moody atmosphere -- Seen in my contacts' photos. ( ?² )

Is this it nowadays? www.flickr.com/photos/jonclark2000/2119690514/

Brian Mulligan I think so, but am absolutely open to correction by Waterford people! I'm assuming the Tower Hotel was built on the site of the Adelphi Hotel, so confirmation or outright denial would be good...

Great Classic Photo. Nicely Taken. Nice Place.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Waking Into the Dream, and we'd love to have this added to the group! great

With such seriousness abound, it became necessary to invent superman.

What an incredible image!

Serious mens are serious. :)

Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1947) served as Republican Governor of New York from January 1915 to December 1918. He was also a delegate to Republican National Convention from New York in 1916. Whitman graduated from Williams College, class of 1890. Prior to his election as governor, he served as a New York City municipal judge and as Manhattan District Attorney. As District Attorney, he gained national fame in prosecuting New York City Police Lt. Charles Becker for the July 16, 1912 murder of Times Square gambling house operator Herman Rosenthal in front of West 43rd Street's Hotel Metropole (owned by Lower East Side Tammany Hall leader "Big Tim" Sullivan). Later, as Governor, Whitman signed Becker's death warrant and presided over his electrocution. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Whitman "Whitman May Lose More Witnesses. District Attorney Finds That Three Are Being Intimidated and Are Wavering." Source: New York Times; September 7, 1912 Weblink: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE5D81630E233A... "District Attorney Whitman Following Trail Leading to Captains and Detectives. With Grand Juries here and in Lakewood, N.J., grinding out indictments against men who have been engaged in the business of stealing and selling automobiles, the situation here took a turn yesterday where it became probable that police officials, including half a dozen precinct Captains, would become involved." Source: New York Times; April 18, 1914 Weblink: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E7D81E39E633A...

>> Z.A. M. in a Wall St. broker's office This is "2 AM in a Wall St. broker's office" -- taken on October 23, 1915, 2:00 AM. See: this photo at The Library of Congress; "Wall St., N.Y., 2 A.M. in broker's office: Clerks sleeping in office due to excessive work caused by heavy stock business."