Who were past owners of Madison Square Garden?

Answer 1

I can't answer your question directly, but I do know that Stanford White, the architect famous for numerous New York landmarks, had designed the garden that actually occupied the roof of the original Madison Square building, and was where he was killed by a jealous former lover's spouse. A good place to start is to read up on Stanford White; one book of interest is, "The Architect of Desire : Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family", written by his great-great-granddaughter (??) Suzannah Lessard.

OK...here it is (I guess)

MSG was owned by the Madison Square Garden Inc., which was led by Irwin Felt (hence The Felt Fourm which is now The Theater at MSG). MSG was then taken over by Gulf + Western. Gulf + Western took over Paramount Pictures Corporation in 1966, then changed the name of the company to Paramount Communications in 1989. In 1994, Paramount was acquired by Viacom. ITT then got MSG from Viacom...then entered into a partnership with Cablevision. Sometimes you'd see under the words Madison Square Garden "An ITT-Cablevision Company". Cablevision then took full control.

That's the best I can do with the answer.

I do know that before Cablevision purchased the Garden and all of its properties, it was previously owned by Paramount and then previously by Gulf + Western. This period cover I believe the late-70's through the early 90's.

Answer 2

What is the history of the owners of madison square garden?... date and purchasing price included