
Monday Night Trivia
NYC Trivia League Hosts our Monday Night Trivia in The Beer Cellar
Inspired by the Student Art League of New York
• The Art League is 130 years old
• Located on sih St. and Broadway beginning in 1875
• Funded by George Vanderbilt
• Some instructors, lecturers and students:
o Thomas Hart Benton
o Norman Rockwell
o Man Ray
o Jackson Pollack
o Roy Lichtenstein
o Among many others
• Series of elevator doors from the late 1800’s.
• Elevator doors were converted to Dutch doors
• Victorian style 25ft. bar on the entry level from the Commodore Hotel in downtown
Manhattan, from 1870 with antique leaded glass arches. It was transported to Yonkers
in the 1930’s.
• The beer cellar has a 12ft. bar with milled beer barrels into both the bar and back bar.
It was taken from a speakeasy in New Rochelle dating from the late 1920’s.
• All the light fixtures were made from 1860-1930
The pendant light fixtures that surround the dining room were salvaged from St.
Joseph’s Cathedral in Springfield, NJ. The sconces were from the Masonic Temple in the
Bronx.
• Several ofthe chairs date from 1860-1920, including a few Stickley’s.
• The restaurant is filled with imagery of evolving art and photography.
• The 6′ entry image, Bock Beer, was originally done by Lowenbrau in 19th century Munich
and reproduced here in oil.
• The mural in the Beer Cellar, The Absorption of Baseball, was drawn in 1889 and created
by H.S Crocker and Co. It illustrates 5 steps of a baseball player evolving into a stein of
beer.
• Also on display is a treasure trove of pencil sketches shown on napkins and placemats
from Shraffts- a NYC dining institution that was in business from 1915-1970.
• On the stairway down to the Beer Cellar is a series of Harper’s Weekly Journal of
Civilization circa 1877.
• The glass ceramic steins shown from the US and Europe are a small portion of the Hall’s
collection.
• The flatiron was originally invented by Mary Potts in 1871 in Iowa. There are dozens of
variations of flatirons displayed including some fueled by coal, kerosene and gasoline.