Augustus Mayhew, Author at New York Social Diary

Palm Beach Social Diary: Road Trip — Billionaires Row, Part I

Palm Beach• May 22, 2020.

The Gold Coast, Millionaires Row, Mansion Row, and now Billionaires Row; now we’re talking Palm Beach real estate history. Augustus Mayhew delivers ... READ MORE

Palm Beach Social Diary: FORE! Golf Greats @ Seminole for COVID-19 Benefit

Palm Beach• May 17, 2020.

In case you missed it: Today, the Seminole Golf Club is hosting a competitive charity golf event to benefit COVID-19 relief workers. Augustus Mayhew g... READ MORE

Palm Beach Social Diary: Preservation Matters

Across the Nation• April 23, 2020.

Augustus Mayhew’s history and photographs of the 1960s Modernist house, Quail High, now an architectural landmark in Palm Beach County... READ MORE

Borromeo Baroque: Lake Maggiore’s Isola Bella & Isola Madre

Travel• April 8, 2020.

With Italy facing one of its most perilous challenges, here is a look back at Primavera on Isola Bella and Isola Madre where timeless architecture and... READ MORE

Oil Swells: The Standard Oil Crowd in Palm Beach

Social History• March 6, 2020.

Augustus Mayhew’s now classic history “Oil Swells: The Standard Oil Crowd in Palm Beach” around the turn of the 19th century to the 20th, when ... READ MORE

Palm Beach Modern: Pitbull + Geoffrey Bradfield + Winslow Homer + Snowbirds

Across the Nation• February 18, 2020.

Augustus Mayhew takes in the seasonal flocks of snowbirds sweeping through the skies of Palm Beach... READ MORE

Palm Beach Social Diary: #New Norton: 45th Gala + 1st Pre-Gala ArtBeat

Across the Nation• February 6, 2020.

Augustus Mayhew to the Norton Art Museum’s 2020 Gala — the 45th — with an exhibition “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern” and 750 supporters ... READ MORE

Timeless Palm Beach: Spanish Revival at El Bravo Park

Social History• February 3, 2020.

Palm Beach Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew takes us on an historical tour of a famous Palm Beach mansion in Bravo Park, built in 1930 and completely res... READ MORE

Best Friends: Jewish Society in Old Palm Beach

Social History• January 28, 2020.

Augustus Mayhew reminds us of the social heritage of Palm Beach in its creation, many of the prominent Jewish leaders of New York who winter there and... READ MORE

Palm Beach Social Diary: PBSD @ The Breakers + @ The Gardens

Across the Nation• January 13, 2020.

A quick lookback of the Breakers’ private pier of yesteryear, often a quick seaplane jump to Havana, back then; plus the Palm Beach Gardens Conserva... READ MORE

A Debutante’s Diary, Part II: 1920-1921 From Engagement to Honeymoon to First Born

Social History• January 7, 2020.

Take a trip with your imagination to another place, another time, a moment in history in someone’s life when everything was not only all right, but ... READ MORE

A Debutante’s Diary, Part I: 1919-1920

Social History• January 7, 2020.

Returning to Ellen Glendinning Frazer Ordway, whose photo memoir began with her 1919-1920 coverage “A Debutante’s Diary, Part I” of young of Soc... READ MORE

Palm Beach Social Diary: Palm Beach Now & Then

Across the Nation• December 18, 2019.

Augustus Mayhew covers the holidays in PB with a benefit dinner for the Gentlemen of the Garden at Casa Phippsberger under a full moon; plus a trip th... READ MORE

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