AREW tour takes in historic Tilden Mansion.In keeping with its mission of providing outstanding educational programs for real estate professionals, the Association of Real Estate Women (AREW) sponsored a colorful behind-the-scenes tour for members and guests of the high Victorian Tilden mansion MANSION. This term is synonymous with house. (q.v.) 1 Chit. Pr. 167; 2 T. R. 502; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 215, n. 35; 9 B. & C. 681; S. C. 17 E. C. L. R. 472, and the cases there cited; Com. Dig. Justices, P 5; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 199. at 15 Gramercy Park Gramercy Park (sometimes misspelled as Grammercy) is a small, fenced-in private park in the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York State[1]. South. The tour, which was spiked with lively anecdotes, was led by O. Aldon James Jr., president of the National Arts Club The National Arts Club is a private club founded in 1898 to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts". Since 1906 the organization has occupied the Samuel J. , which has made the mansion its home since 1906. James commented that the building has "four floors, but many stories." The mansion, which dates to the 1840s, was the home of Samuel Tilden, an attorney who became governor of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and an 1876 presidential candidate. Tilden is known for winning the popular vote, but losing the electoral college electoral college, in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, vote to Rutherford Rutherford (rŭth`ərfərd), borough (1990 pop. 17,790), Bergen co., NE N.J., a residential suburb of the New York City–N New Jersey metropolitan area; inc. 1881. Several pre-Revolutionary houses remain there. B. Hayes in an election paralleling the presidential election of 2000. "We are delighted to have had the opportunity of offering AREW members an inside glimpse of this remarkable historic building," said Anne Teshima, president of AREW. "The Tilden Mansion holds a legacy of historical wealth behind its doors that Mr. James did a remarkable job of presenting." The mansion's public rooms now showcase an extensive collection of art produced over the years by the club's members--sometimes in exchange for membership dues. The collection of over 400 paintings is now worth millions, James said. The tour was arranged by Alice Palmisano, AREW Program Committee co-chair and a long-time member of the club, in response to inquiries from AREW members who would not otherwise have had access to the club, which is closed to the public except for special events and exhibitions. |
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