Annual Appeal 2024-25 | Help us Inspire and Illuminate our Communities: Make History and The Arts Accessible to Everyone

Your gift will be vital to help us fulfill an exciting future for the Mansion, while supporting LMMM’s mission of preserving and interpreting history and the arts through public programs that engage and enrich our communities, encourage dialogue, learning, and creativity. Together we can open our doors to a greater number of youth and adults, expand student programs, and offer an outstanding calendar of events at a new and improved facility.

Lecture | "Gilded Age Properties: A Sneak Peek at the Holdings of the Lockwoods & Mathews" | Sun., May 18 at 2:00pm

Through family letters, artifacts, handwritten notes, dusty newspaper accounts, tax records, wills, and deeds, Kathy Olsen, with a small team of Mansion researchers, was able to piece together the fascinating history of the holdings of two renowned Gilded Age families. Join us for this revealing talk, which will span generations and uncover family assets, surprising beneficiaries, and secret scandals.

Exhibit | “Bulls of Wall Street: High Finance, Power, and Social Change in Victorian America” | Sept. 4, 2025 – Feb. 4, 2026

This exhibition will explore the financial world of LeGrand Lockwood, one of America’s first millionaires and Treasurer of the NY Stock Exchange, and his more renowned peers—Vanderbilt, Gould, and Fisk. This program will also investigate the role of women and individuals from marginalized communities who tried to break Wall Street’s “glass ceiling” and enter the world of finance and the market in 19th-century America.