Preservation Long Island is honored to welcome Samuel G. White to discuss The Architect as Client: Stanford White at “Box Hill.”
Please join us for an intimate evening of discussion:
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
Time: 5:30 – 7:00 P.M.
Location: Piping Rock Club, 150 Piping Rock Road, Locust Valley, NY
Tickets: Lecture and Cocktails: $35
Between 1884 and 1906, Stanford White directed a nearly continuous program of additions, renovations, and landscaping at “Box Hill”, the estate in Saint James that he and Bessie White had purchased shortly after their marriage. While Bessie saw “Box Hill” as a gathering place for family and friends, White and his partners treated “Box Hill” as a laboratory for their ideas, enlarging the structure from a vernacular farmhouse to a highly developed essay on country house architecture and landscape design.
Sam White will discuss the history of “Box Hill” as a process reflecting Stanford White’s ambitions, ideals, and opportunities while highlighting his dual role as both architect and client.
Registration required — space is limited.
Samuel G. White, FAIA is the author of four books on the work of Stanford White and McKim, Mead & White, most recently Stanford White in Detail, plus Nice House, a survey of recent, modest, architect-designed houses. He is a great-grandson of Stanford White and a founding partner of PBDW Architects.
