The Upper East Side Walking Tour # 1
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories

A Walking Tour of The Upper East Side's Past and Present

Some of This Tours Highlights are:

• Christ Church, designed to look much older than it is.
• Edward Durell Stone redesigned this brownstone but sometimes it changes back
• Sara D. Roosevelt Memorial House (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt)
• originally: The Barbizon Hotel, "The Bell Jar" - women only
• originally: Asia House designed by Philip Johnson
• Trinity Baptist Church, its Swedish roots are expressed in its architecture
• originally: The Pepsi Cola Bldg, a early example of Modern (the International style) architecture on Park Ave.
• Thomas R. Howell Mansion
• Andy Warhol lived here
• Lillian Hellman lived here
• originally: The Henry O. Havenmeyer Stable & Coach House now a garage
• The Seventh Regiment New York National Guard Armory
• The Colony Club
• The Cosmopolitan Club
• The Union Club
• A Row Of Four Park Ave. Landmark Mansions
• St. Vincent Ferrer Complex
• Parge House
• Park East Synagogue
• Barbara Rutherford Hatch House, Vanderbilts, Gypsy Rose Lee (a mystry) and more
• Milan House Apts.
• Richard Nixon former president of the U. S. lived here
• Six Buildings Originally Stables And Carriage Houses
• The studio where Mark Rothko worked, lived and comitted suicide

You Will Find Out About:

• The Railroad tracks on Park Avenue (The Avenue of Death)
• Lincoln Ellsworth and the South Pole
• Richard Nixon - Jimmey Walker -Tallulah Bankhead - Gypsy Rose Lee - Wila Cather - Montgomery Cliff
  Lillian Hellman - Walter Lippman - The Third Avenue Car Barn and much more