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The Upper East Side Millionaire's Mile Walking Tour Slide Shows
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories

Millionaires Mile in the Upper East Side Historic District Presentation   view slide show part 1 (a minute to load)
Millionaires Mile in the Upper East Side Historic District Presentation   view slide show part 2 (a minute to load)
Millionaires Mile in the Metropolitan Museum Historic District Presentation   view slide show  (a minute to load)

These presentations focuses on the architecture and history of a part of a neighborhood once known as Millionaires Mile,
at the turn of the last century, and is today part of: The Upper East Side Historic District & The Metropolitan Museum Historic District.
Included in the presentation are pictures of some surviving mansions plus interesting pictures of bygone mansions and scenes from the past
along with stories that will help join us with the neighborhood's past.

These Walking Tour Slide Shows of Manhattan's Past and Present Features:
A tour through Grand Army Plaza along 5th Ave. & between Madison Ave. & 5 Ave.
& into the Upper East Side Historic District & the Metropolitan Museum Historic District.

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Millionaires Mile part I includes::

  • Millionaires Mile and what caused Its development and then what caused its demise
  • Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and the mansion she grew up in.
  • Grand Army Plaza - The Pulitzer Fountain (Karl Bitter)
  • The Plaza Hotel the man who built It and what was there before - Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 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
  • The Links Club and The Browning School
  • The Bank of New York
  • Some New York brownstones that pre date the mansions on Millionaires Mile
  • William & Gladys Ziegler Mansion
  • The site of, and a picture of:
    the Elbridge T. Gerry mansion, considered the first mansion on Millionaires Mile
    the Runyon W. Martin mansion from 1869, actually the 1st mansion on 5th Ave to face Central Park
    Jabez Bostwick mansion on 5th Ave before Millionaires Mile came about
  • The Arsenal Building predates Central Park - &much more there are 73 slides in this presentation

The Millionaires Mile Part 2 Presentation Includes:

  • Edwin Berwind Mansion
  • Marshall Orme Wilson Mansion
  • Temple Emanu El on the site of Caroline Astor's Mansion On Millionaires Mile
    (story why she moved there and what her mansion looked like)
  • The Wildenstein Art Palace
  • The Bank of Manhattan>
  • A Queen Ann style, brick and brownstone residence from 1882 (altered but still standing)
  • originally:Charles H. Sherrill Mansion - mother and son convicted of murder
  • Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House(s)
  • originally The James J. Van Alen Mansion from 1917, Crisp Regency style
  • A landmark apartment house decorated with French and English Gothic motifs
    and at one time it was home to Boris Karloff
  • Ulysses S. Grant lived in a old house on this site.
  • Originally Mr. & Mrs Schieffen Mansion (The Ace of Clubs)
  • Originally Charles Scribner Mansion
  • site of the Havemeyer Mansion & what it looked like at the turn of the last century
  • R. Livingston Beekman mansion
  • The site & picture 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"
  • 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 a picture of the Lenox Library
  • Frick Art Reference Library & Frick Museum -fromerly: Henry Clay Frick Mansion
  • The site of the Josiah Fiske Mansion on Millionaires Mile
  • "The Richard Morris Hunt Memorial"
  • The site & picture of the William A. Clark Mansion & Millionaires Mile in 1916
    & so much more,there are 103 slides in this slide Show presentation

Millionaires Mile in the Metropolitan Museum Historic District Presentation

    li>The Metropolitan Museum Of Art and what the original building looked like
  • site of & picture of Edward Lauterback Mansion
  • The site & picture of the Henry H. Cook Mansion>
  • NYU Institute of Fine Arts formerly the Doris Duke mansion
  • The Cultural Services of France Embassy formerly Payne & Helen Hay Whitney Mansion
  • formerly: Philip & Beulah Robbins Mansio
  • The Stuyvesant Fish Mansion
  • New York Society Library formerly:John S. & Catherine C. Rogers Mansion
  • John H. & Caroline Iselin Townhouse
  • formerly: Thatcher & Frances Adams Townhouse
  • Perea House an Art Deco home from 1930
  • Consulate of Greece formerly: George & Sarah Rives Townhouse
  • Acquavella Gallery formerly:The J. Woodward Haven Mansion
  • Ukraine Institute of America formerly:Isaac Dudley Fletcher Mansion (the Fifth Ave. Style)
    & home of the last of Peter Stuyvesant's descendants
  • A large Grecian bust from an old Ziegfeld theater on display in front of a ornate brownstone
  • The site & picture of the Frank Woolworth Mansion on Millionaires Mile
  • Duke - Seaman Mansion, Benjamin Duke's Mansion on Millionaires Mile
  • The Irish American Historical Society, originally the Mary Augustus King Mansion
  • The site and picture of the four Brokaw mansions that were demolished.
  • A picture of the Louis Stern Mansion on Millionaires Mile
  • A picture of the William Salomon Mansion on Millionaires Mile
  • An Art Deco design by Raymond Hood in the Metropolitan Museum Historic District
    alongside Historically styled townhouses
  • The Jonathan Thorne Mansion on Millionaires Mile
  • Neue Galerie New York formerly The William Starr Miller Mansion on Millionaires Mile
    & much more information are in the 45 slides in this slide show presentation

The walking tour slideshows are hosted by Alfred Pommer a college graduate, an author, an informative native New Yorker &
a licensed New York City guide, who has spent over 30 years researching, creating & leading tours in Manhattan's
many diverse neighborhoods.

These are links to Alfred Pommer's author page at: amazon.com & at: goodreads for information about 4 Manhattan neighborhood
walking tour guide books authored by Alfred Pommer & published by The History Press (Arcadia Publishing)

Publisher needed for new nonfiction neighborhood walking tour guide books.

Call: (212) 979-2388 to schedule a private consultation or slideshow presentation
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