ABSTRACT
But there was not much to report about the Shepard-Morris wedding. It had been a quiet affair with only six guests, conducted without prior announcement at 5:30 on a Wednesday afternoon, not in one of the major churches near the various Vanderbilt residences on Fifth Avenue by Central Park, but south, at the Church of the Transfiguration on East Twenty-Ninth Street. Known as The Little Church Around the Corner, it had a romantic, slightly naughty image as ‘the scene of many weddings in which the contracting parties were known to fame, more especially in the theatrical field,’ hardly a place thought suitable for a Vanderbilt wedding (New York Times [NYT] 23 June 1895, p. 11).
