Evelyn Nesbit
Florence Evelyn Nesbit
American
Florence Evelyn Nesbit, known professionally as Evelyn Nesbit, was an American chorus girl, artists' model and the mistress of architect Stanford White. - AsNotedIn
Florence Evelyn Nesbit, known professionally as Evelyn Nesbit, was an American chorus girl, artists' model and the mistress of architect Stanford White. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1885/12/25 | Evelyn Florence Nesbit, wife of Winfield Scott Nesbit, gives birth to a daughter, Florence Evelyn Nesbit on Christmas Day in Natrona, Pennsylvania, a small town near Pittsburgh, 1884 or 1885. | Born | Natrona | Pennsylvania | |||
| 1901/00/00 | Evelyn Nesbit joins the chorus line at the hugely successful Broadway play Florodora. The New York production ran for 552 performances at the Casino Theatre at 1404 Broadway, at W 39th St (razed 1930). | Actress | |||||
| 1901/00/00 | Photographer, Rudolf Eickemyer Jr, creates 'In My Studio, Evelyn Nesbit, Tired Butterfly'. Clad in Stanford White's Japanese komodo, Nesbit doses on a polar bear rug. Starting in 1901, Eickemyer was the manager of the Campbell Art Studio at 590 Fifth Ave. | Model | |||||
| 1902/00/00 | Thaw Family summer residence, a Tudor Revival mansion set on 130 acres, is completed at an astronomical cost of $150,000. | Home | Elmhurst | Loretto, PA | |||
| 1905/00/00 | Harry K Thaw makes a home at 1710 Spruce St. | Home | Harry K Thaw Residence | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1906/06/25 | Stanford White, his son Lawrence and James Clinch Smith enjoy diner at the Cafe Martin near Madison Square Garden. Harry Thaw and his wife Evelyn Nesbit also dine at the same restaurant. | Mistress | Murder of Stanford White | ||||
| 1910/00/00 | After the trials, the Thaw family gives Nesbit $25,000. She donated the money to anarchist Emma Goldman. | Life | |||||
| 1925/00/00 | In the 1920s, Nesbit runs a speakeasy located in the West Fifties in Manhattan. | Criminal | |||||
| 1955/00/00 | Evelyn Nesbit is paid $10,000 as a technical adviser on the movie "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing". The movie is fictionalized account of events in Nesbit's life. | Work | |||||
| 1967/01/17 | After spending her elderly years teaching art in Corbis, California, Evelyn Nesbit dies in a nursing home in Santa Monica, California. She is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. | Died |
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