Madison Square Garden is one of New York’s most well known landmarks. It is arguably one of the most famous arenas in the world. Unfortunately, it is also one of the least appealing, but it was not always so. For there have been four incarnations of Madison Square Garden, located throughout the city since 1879. But by far the most beautiful and breathtaking was the second, which was also the scene of one of Manhattan’s more infamous murders, that involved a love triangle between the most celebrated ‘It’ girl of her day, Evelyn Nesbit, her deranged husband, Harry Thaw, and the architect of the Madison Square Garden itself, Stanford White.
The murder gripped New York, and became known as the ‘trial of the century’. Its more salacious aspects, including a red velvet swing, were pored over in the Press. And we’re going in search of the few physical remnants that still exist from this notorious tale of murder from the Gilded Age…
