Labor, Literature and Landmark Lecture Series Spring 2017

The Gargoyle Hunters

With Author, John Freeman Gill

Thursday, June 8th at the General Society Library

The Program starts at 6:30 p.m.

Book Signing and Reception to follow

Presented in Partnership with The Historic Districts Council.

Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New York’s relationship with time, John Freeman Gill’s new novel presents the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural heist—the theft of an entire historic Manhattan building—that stunned the City and made the front page of The New York Times. In his illustrated talk, centering on the landmark Woolworth Building, John Freeman Gill will discuss the book and relate the vivid history of the building’s remarkable gothic terra-cotta facade and the original research he did into its 1970s restoration for his novel. This will be followed by a reading from a nail-biting scene in his book that takes place at the top of the Woolworth Building.

John Freeman Gill is a long-time New York Times contributor as well as the architecture and real estate editor of Avenuemagazine. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Observer, The Washington Monthly, The International Herald Tribune, the website of New York magazine, Premiere, the New York Times Op-Ed page, and The New York Times Book Review.

“Extravagantly satisfying … It held me, delighted me, and left me enthralled. —The Los Angeles Review of Books

Free Admission.

20 West 44th Street, (Between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York City.

Reception and Book Signing to follow. Advance Registration is recommended.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.