The Historic (Old) New York City Walking Tour
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories

A Walking Tour of Manhattan's Past and Present

The two and a half hour Tour of Lower Manhattan's Past and Present Also Features:

• Information about Lower Manhattan's changing residential nature.
• Alexander Hamilton's grave also the site where he lived and the site where he worked downtown
• New York Stock Exchange Building
• originally: The American Surety Co. Bldg. a landmark historically styled skyscraper from 1895
• originally: The Empire Bldg. a landmark historically styled skyscraper from 1898
• originally: The American Express Bldg. a landmark historically styled skyscraper from 1917
• The original: Morgan Guarantee Turst Co. Building
• Federal Hall National Memorial Museum
• 40 Wall Tower tried to be the world's tallest building by 1932 it was the 4th tallest building in the world
• Statue of George Washington on the site where he took his oath as the first president of the U.S.
• Martyrs Monument / Trinity Church (picture of the original Trinity Church - "A Tale of Truth" and more).
• One site where George Washington lived.
• The United States Customs House Building.
• The site of New York City's first skyscraper and a picture of it.
• Battery Park Control House from 1905
• formerly: The Department of Docks Headquarters & Fire Boat Station from 1888 on Pier A
• Castle Clinton and its many uses before becoming a national and a New York City landmark
• "National Merchant Marine Memorial" combines traditional bronze figures and post modern kinetic art
• "The Universal Soldier" The New York Korean War Memorial
• Shrine of Elizabeth Anne Seton- Herman Melville - New York Unearthed (museum)
• Originally: The American Bank Note Co. Bldg.,
• Fraunces Tavern
• originally The Broad Exchange Building also known as The Exchange
• Woodhull. Claflin and Co. were here, and the first woman to run for president of the U. S. had her campaign headquarters here

The stops Included in the three and a half hour tour are:

• Remnants from colonial New Amsterdam
• The New York Vietnam Memorial
• formerly 1st Pricent Police Station from 1911 - now New York City Police Museum
• India House, Hanover Square and the site of Captain Kidd's house.
• The old Delmonico's restaurant
• (originally) Merchants Exchange Bldg. from 1842
• originally: the Bank of New York

The stops included in the four and a half hour walking tour:

• The church of the first Methodist society organized in America.
• The Downtown Association Bldg. & the Wallace Bldg. two landmark buildings from the 19 century Financial District
• The Federal Reserve Bank - site where Thomas Jefferson lived
• 2 historically styled landmark buildings: Liberty Tower from 1910 and
  the New York Chamber of Commerce & Industry Bldg. from 1901
• originally: Chase Manhattan Bank from 1961 - Isamu Noguchi & Dubuffet
• originally: The Citi Service Bldg. a landmark skyscraper from 1932
• originally: The AT& T Building 1924
• Saint Paul's Chapel its architecture and its history - George Washington prayed here and much more.