The Upper East Side Millionaire's Mile Walking Tour 1

This walking tour features the architecture and history of a part of a neighborhood once known as Millionares Mile at the turn of the last century, and is today part of the Upper East Side Historic District. Included in the tour are interesting pictures and stories that will help join us with the neighborhood's past.

• Millionaires Mile and what caused Its development and then what caused its demise
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and the mansion she grew up in.
• The Plaza Hotel the man who built It and what was there before - Frank Lloyd Wright
• The Pulitzer Fountain and The Sherman Memorial (Augustus Saint Gaudens)
• The Millionaires Club (Stanford White)
• The Frabri Mansion (a wedding gift)
• The Samuel Spencer Mansion
• The Knickerbocker Club, considered one of the best Federal style buildings in New York
• William & Gladys Ziegler Mansion
• The Wildenstein Art Palace
• A picture of the Elbridge Gerry mansion considered the first mansion on Millionaires Mile
• The Arsenal Building predates Central Park
• Edwin Berwind Mansion
• Marshall Orme Wilson Mansion
• Some New York brownstones that pre date the mansions on Millionaires Mile
• Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House(s)
• Temple Emanu El on the site of Caroline Astor's Mansion On Millionaires Mile (story why she moved there)
• Optional:
  Teddy Roosevelt Lived here
  The Links Club
  The Browning SchooL

• Ulysses S. Grant lived in a old house on this site.
• site of the Havemeyer Mansion & what it looked like at the turn of the last century)
• Originally Mr. & Mrs Schieffen Mansion (The Ace of Clubs)
• Originally Charles Scribner Mansion
• Boris Karloff lived here
• A site of true heroism on the Upper East Side
• R. Livingston Beekman mansion
• The site of the George Gould Mansion and what it looked like at the turn of the last century
• "Infantry Memorial - The 7th Regiment Monument" or "Doughboys Leaving Central Park"
• Twin mansions on different streets and different owners
• Find out about: Harry & Gertrude P. Whitney mansion home to "Little Gloria"
• The site of the Josiah M. & Martha Fiske Mansion and what it looked like at the turn of the last century
• Henry Clay Frick, his mansion, his museim and what was there before
• Find out about James Lenox and the Lenox Library
• The Frick Art Reference Library
• East 70 Street Mansions (5 landmark mansions)
• "The Richard Morris Hunt Memorial" and much more