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The 5th Ave. Mansions also known as Millionaires Mile Slideshows
of Manhattan's Past & Present

Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures & Stories

The slideshow focuses on Manhattan's Gilded Age mansions along with its architecture & history
& includes a part of the turn of the century neighborhood once known as Millionaires Mile, &
is now part of today's Upper East Side Historic District.
Included in the slideshows are surviving mansions, plus interesting photographs/pictures of bygone mansions,
& scenes from the past along with stories that will help join us with Manhattan's Gilded Age.

The Slideshow of Manhattan's Gilded Age Mansions Include:

Grand Army Plaza & the Upper East Side Historic District,
along with information & photographs of a intersection that held 4 Gilded Age mansions

The Slideshows 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 Fabbri Mansion (a wedding gift)
  • The Samuel Spencer Mansion
  • The sites of, along with information & pictures 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 Knickerbocker Club, considered one of the best Federal style buildings in New York
  • The Links Club & The Browning School & much more
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  • The Bank of New York
  • Some New York brownstones that pre date the mansions on Millionaires Mile
  • William & Gladys Ziegler Mansion
  • The Arsenal Building predates Central Park
  • Edwin Berwind Mansion
  • Marshall Orme Wilson Mansion
  • The Wildenstein Art Palace
  • Temple Emanu El on the site of Caroline Astor's Mansion On Millionaires Mi
    (the story why she moved there and what her mansion looked like)
  • The Bank of Manhattan
  • A Queen Ann style, brick and brownstone residence from 1882 (altered but still standing)
  • Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House(s)
  • 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 older brownstone 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 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"
  • Henry Clay Frick, his mansion, his museum and what was there before
  • Find out about James Lenox and the Lenox Library
  • The Frick Art Reference Library
  • Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Mansion
  • "The Richard Morris Hunt Memorial" and much more

Private slideshows will be 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 & is the author of 4 walking tour guide books published by the History Press.

Call: (212) 979-2388 to schedule a private slideshow presentation
www.nycslideshow.com -   www.nycwalk.com  -   e mail

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.

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All photographs on this web site are by Alfred Pommer
& all content on this web site, such as graphics, logos, button icons and images
is the property of Alfred Pommer and protected by United States and international copyright laws.
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