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GSMT - Gracie Mansion: 75 Years the People's House - Anatomy of a New York Landmark by Paul Gunther

Paul Gunther, Gracie Mansion Conservancy Executive Director in his lecture will explore the Mansion's evolution architecturally, culturally, and politically in its first 218 years, and mark the Mansion's 75th Anniversary as the official residence of New York City's Mayor. In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a sleepy, scenic bend in the East River. More than two centuries later, Gracie Mansion survives as a living landmark in one of New York's oldest surviving wood structures. It commands one of the greatest and most historically strategic vistas in the entire region. After decades of shifting ownership and use, Robert Moses, convinced City authorities to designate the house as the official residence of the Mayor. In 1942, Fiorello La Guardia moved in and labeled it "The Little White House,' a function it has maintained ever since, except for the last nonresident mayor, who renewed its dual identity as "The People's House". Today with residents Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray, the Mansion is open to all and imparting lessons in history and civic engagement in innovative ways. To mark the 75th anniversary, a special installation in the Mansion called New York 1942 recalls the tumultuous time of the residence's advent. Paul Gunther is a 1978 graduate of Yale College whose career spanning five decades has centered on nonprofit cultural and civic institutions in New York and Paris, France. Before his present assignment, he served for a decade as president of the nationwide Institute of Classical Architecture & Art headquartered at the General Society since 2003. In 2017, his book New York Living: Reinventing Home, was marked published by Rizzoli.