A day of honor | New York Social Diary

July 21 2009, 3:57pm

Last night I started out at a reception at the Carlton Hobbs Gallery on 60 East 93rd Street between Madison and Park. Mr. Hobbs’ gallery is located in a Neoclassical style mansion designed by John Russell Pope in 1930 for Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt. Mrs. Vanderbilt died only five years after moving in. The mansion was acquired by Byron and Thelma Chrysler Foy. Mrs. Foy was the daughter of Walter P. Chrysler, the automotive magnate who also built the skyscraper on 42nd Street named for him.