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July 8, 1996

The New Yorker cover for July 8, 1996

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Stanford White’s Ruins

Suzannah Lessard

Suzannah Lessard’s 1996 profile of her great-grandfather Stanford White, the architect who designed Madison Square Garden and the Washington Square Arch and who was murdered in 1906.