2022 04 20MultiStories: America’s greatest antique skyscrapersskylight gallery
E V E N T
Date
Prix fixe dinner to follow
Location
Sponsor
Admission
Open to Coffee House and Salmagundi members
Free to attend; RSVP suggested
Dinner reservations encouraged, as seating is limited.
About the Event
Take a tour of elegant landmark tall buildings still standing today, not only in New York but in LA, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Pittsburgh and beyond. Learn surprising secrets of the millionaires who built these towers and see photographs, vintage postcards, and rare archival images from a century ago.
About the Speaker
Mark Houser is an antique skyscraper expert and author of MultiStories: 55 antique skyscrapers & the business tycoons who built them. He appears in the new Curiosity Stream documentary History by the Numbers: Skyscrapers and is teaching a course at NYU this fall on historic tall buildings. This month Houser and artist Chris Hytha debut Highrises, a new project featuring antique skyscraper NFTs and limited edition posters.
