SinisterCrimes
Portrait of Stanford White
Illus. in: Critic, 1895, v. 26, p. 329., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Victim

Stanford White

Born
9 November 1853
Died
25 June 1906, aged about 53
Record
Wikidata Q572735 · Wikipedia

Victim in The Murder of Stanford White

Architect, partner in McKim, Mead & White and designer of the Madison Square Garden where he was killed.

1906–1908 · Madison Square Garden, New York City · Acquitted

In 1906 Harry Thaw shot the architect Stanford White before a theater crowd at Madison Square Garden. Two trials later, a jury called Thaw insane. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Thaw shoots Stanford White dead at the Madison Square Garden roof theater.