NEW YORK CITY CULTURAL WALKING TOURS

Upper East Side Millionaires Mile Walking Tour 2

This tour features architecture and history of a part of a neighborhood on the Upper East Side once known as Millionaire's Mile - also includes interesting pictures and stories that will help join us with the area's past

This Walking tour of Manhattan's Past and Present Features:
A walk from E. 72 St. to E. 86 St. including the Metropolitan Museum Historic District. There are over a dozen landmarked turn of the century mansions along with other examples of modern & historical styles of architecture and interesting pictures and stories. Each participant is given an Itinerary with 32 Stops that includes 19 New York City landmarks and 5 National Landmarks for the three and a half hour version. 20 stops for the two and a half hour version. 14 Stops for the two hour version. All Stops Are Fully Discussed. You will find out about the loss of the Tiffany Mansion and the demolition of the four Brokaw mansions that caused demonstations and helped influence mayor Lindlsay to put enforcement powers to the Landmark Preservation Act.

The two hour walking tour features:

Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion,(The Fifth Ave. Style)
Henry T. Sloan Mansion, regarded as one of the finest Beaux Arts styled townhouses in New York City
The Oliver Gould Jennings Mansion an opulent Beaux Arts style townhouse from 1899
the Joseph Pulitzer Mansion
Site of (and a picture of) the Tiffany Mansion where Louis Tiffany lived with his family
Site of the Alva Vanderbilt Mansion from 1895
the J. W. Simpson Townhouse and the Mary E. W. Terrel Townhouse, 2 Beaux Arts styled mansions on 5th Ave.
Dorothy Parker lived the last 14 years of her life here
Pale Male and Lola, 2 wild red tailed hawks were evicted from here
the second "Modern" house in New York
the Nathaniel McCready Mansion and the Harkness House For Ballet (the Chalice of Life)
Stuart Duncan Mansion, worcestershire sauce and Mrs Irving Berlin
The Harkness Mansion
The Whitney Museum
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married here in 1905 and President Teddy Roosevelt attended
Doris Duke Mansion On Millionaires Mile
The Payne Whitney Mansion and the Michelangelo story
Site where the four Brokaw mansions were demolished.

The two and a half hour walking tour Includes:

Stuyvesant-Fish Mansion
John L & Catherine C. rogers Townhouse, the New York Society Library)
John H. & Caroline Iselin Townhouse
Thatcher & Frances Adams House
George & Sarah Rives Townhouse
Issac D. Fletcher Mansion (the Fifth Ave. Style) and the last of Peter Stuyvesant's descendants

The three and a half hour walking tour also includes::

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art and what the original building looked like
Site of the Frank Woolworth mansion plus the 3 suviving mansions he built for his daughters
The Irish American Historical Society, originally a mansion
Philip Johnson's facade on 5th Ave. but the building is on E. 80 St.
Outdoor Sculpture: "Unidentified Object" by Isamu Noguchi and "The Castle" by Priscilla Kapel
George M. Cohan (Broadway Star, Producer, Director, Songwriter, Playwright) lived here
Duke - Seaman Mansion, Benjamin Duke's Mansion on Millionaires Mile
the first centrally air conditioned apartment building in New York City
Landmark Regis High School
Landmark Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
Lewis Gouverneur & Nathalie Bailey Morris Mansion
Reginald & Anna DeKoven's Mansion
A little Art Deco gem hidden on side street in this neighborhood of Historically styled buildings
The Jonathan & Harriet Thorne Mansion

About three and a half hours or a short two and a half hour version or a 2 hour version

Meet at: Southwest corner East 72th Street and Madison Ave.
#6 Train to E. 68th St. Station (Lexington Avenue)

Guided by Alfred Pommer a college graduate, a native New Yorker and a Licensed New York City Guide, who has spent over 19 years researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.
Interested in a private walking tour ?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details www.nycwalk.com

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