The Weylin Story – Chapter 8

Another beautiful fact in the story of Mr. Seymour is that even though he kept on increasing his fortune as years passed and had reached a very high social position, he never changed his original spirit and remained that lovely character everybody respected. To the poorest and to the richest, Weylin Seymour was an untouchable soul. He loved walking around and visiting friends in taverns at the infamous Five Points.

Even though he wouldn’t recognize it, Weylin was a little bit inspired by a busy wedding house in Manhattan: The Vanderbilt House. But the big difference between The Vanderbilt’s celebrations and Weylin’s was simple: Weylin set a trend of contributing to a more modern society by mixing people from all backgrounds, while The Vanderbilt was a lot more conservative in that respect. They could even reach the point of rejecting some couples willing to rent the house due to their ethnicity or religion.

This is one of the reasons why Weylin was so beloved besides his own personal charms. His biggest aspiration was having his own wedding palace, as all of his celebrations had been held in different venues throughout the years. He had this in mind for quite a long while, but was unsure of where and when to start this project. He believed the moment would come along with fate and magic, just like everything had been happening so far. Even though many decades passed and Weylin was already in his senile years, he stuck to this belief and managed to let his path lead him to the right person, at the right place and at the right time: New York’s famed Architect George B. Post, in the Williamsburgh neighborhood, in 1870.

Illustraion by Charles Dana Gibson