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The Weird Wendels and the Million Dollar Dog Yard

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The Wendel family had made a fortune in New York real estate but as the Gilded Age came to an end, this once fabulous and famous family turned against itself and became mired in gossip and intrigue. Asylums, infidelities, recluses: Who were the people whom the New York press dubbed “the weird Wendels”?

Fifth Avenue: History of America’s Street of Dreams

Online via Zoom

New York’s Fifth Avenue is one of the most remarkable thoroughfares in the world. By the end of the 19th century it had become synonymous with the most fashionable lifestyles and mansions (and all that accompanied them) of the wealthy. Aggressive arrivistes such as Alva Vanderbilt and Marietta Stevens used their "new money" to employ […]