Samuel Tilden is remembered as the presidential candidate who won the popular vote in 1876 but lost the Electoral College to Rutherford B. Hayes in what author Phillip James Dodd calls “circumstances best described as fraudulent.” The beautiful house Calvert Vaux designed for Tilden on New York’s Gramercy Park must have provided some consolation – particularly since it included a secret tunnel to enable him to escape from the many political enemies he had made as an anti-corruption governor. Phillip James Dodd, a leading authority on classical and traditional architecture, will guide us through the Samuel Tilden House and other surviving New York mansions of the Gilded Age during the annual John G. Winslow Lecture, “An American Renaissance: Architecture’s Impact in the Gilded Age.” Join us this Thursday, August 10, at 6pm at The Breakers or via Zoom. Dodd’s sumptuous book on Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City will be available for purchase and signing. Link in bio to registe...