A Model, an Architect, a Millionaire, and a Murder

Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, Harry Thaw, and the “Trial of the Century”

Architect Stanford White, model Evelyn Nesbit, millionaire Harry Thaw. (public domain)

Evelyn Nesbit: The Artist’s Ideal (1884/85?–1967)

Evelyn Nesbit was the daughter of an attorney and a housewife. She was born on Christmas Day in either 1884 or 1885 (Nesbit herself was unsure of…