Now forgotten, the uber-wealthy Dixon clan of NYC declined through a succession of disastrous marriages to cranks, schemers, and even a killer! Learn their stories from the Gilded Age on the old Bloomingdale Road to Alaska during the Gold Rush.
19th-century asylums are often portrayed as sinister, but the Bloomingdale Asylum in upper Manhattan was different. Architectural historian Dr. Nina Harkrader reconstructs the site and buildings that from 1815 to nearly the end of that century were an important part of the treatment of thousands of troubled New Yorkers through the “Moral Treatment” approach to […]
