Samuel G. White, architect, author, and great grandson of renowned architect Stanford White, will give a lecture on "The Houses of Stanford White (Including God's Houses)" on Friday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1579 Northern Blvd. in Roslyn. The public is invited to attend this free event.

"As part of our centennial celebration, we are thrilled to have Sam White here to share the history of Stanford White and his many commissions for houses, and for our house of worship, on the North Shore of Long Island," said The Reverend Margaret Peckham Clark, rector of Trinity Church.

Established as a church in 1869, Trinity laid a cornerstone for a new church building in August 1906. The church was designed by the legendary architect Stanford White, in one of his last commissions, and contains several stained glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Stanford White (1853-1906) was probably the best-known American architect of the late Nineteenth Century. As a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, he contributed to nearly 1,000 commissions, New York's Pennsylvania Station, and numerous houses on the North Shore of Long Island, including Harbor Hill, the Roslyn estate of Clarence Mackay. When Katherine Mackay, his wife, conceived of the idea of building a church in nearby Roslyn as a memorial to her parents, she naturally looked to Stanford White. For this simple building, Trinity Church, the versatile White developed a design that emphasized the craft of building over elaborate decoration.

Samuel White, a partner of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects, oversees a general practice, focusing on designs that introduce new interventions to historic settings in ways that both reinforce and reinterpret their contexts. Mr. White's recent projects include the restoration of the Louis Armstrong House in Corona, Queens, plus the adaptive reuse of the W. G. Loew mansion for The Spence School and Duane Library for Fordham University. Mr. White is the co-author with Elizabeth White of McKim, Mead & White: The Masterworks (2003) and The Houses of McKim, Mead & White (1998).

For more information on the Centennial events, contact the church office at 621-7925 or email trinityrector@optonline.net.