Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories
The Murray Hill Walking Tour Slideshow
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A Walking Tour Slide Show of the Past & the Present
The slideshow focuses on the history and architecture of the neighborhood known as Murray Hill;
from its colonial days to the gilded age, to the present along with interesting pictures & stories
that help join us with the neighborhood's past. The slideshoe includes information about,
the Murray Hill Historic District, the Sniffen Court Historic District & the surrounding neighborhood.
Highlights on the Slideshow:
- The plaque that commemorates Mary Lindley Murray & the site of Robert Murray's farm along with the story of that explains
why the Murray Hill farm is so closely associated with the American Revolution
- The Estonian House and the story about its previous owner
- The New York New Church
- The Union League Club
- The site & a picture of the Havemeyer Mansion & part of its interior (1 of many Murray Hill mansions in the Gilded Age)
- The Armenian Orthodox Cathedral of America - 23 Karat Gold Leaf Dome
- The statue of "Christ" that looks a bit different
- An Abstract Expressionist sculpture "Decent From the Cross" inspired by Peter Paul Ruben's Baroque drama "Rising the Cross"
- The Empire State Building, who built it, why it was built so tall and what was here before?
- J.P. Morgan Library & one of the last free standing italianate styled mansions in Manhattan
- originally: the James F. D. Lanier Mansion
- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt's first home together
- Admiral David G. Farragut's home - "Dam the torpedoes, full speed ahead"
- Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter lived here
- "The Collector's Club" originally: The Fanny and Thomas Clark Residence
- originally: The J. Hampton Robb Mansion
- Some Manhattan "brownstones" - What are they? Why were they so popular? When were most of them built & who were they built for?
- Sniffen Court Historic District
- Where "The Lunts" - lived Dashiell Hammett lived here
- the site where Guston Borglum had his studio
- originally Adelaide L. T. Douglas Manion
- originally the Raphael De Lamare Mansion
- a 16 story skyscraper with Streamline neo-Gothic decorations that includes grotesque Atlantes & simulated buttresses.
- The Tiffany'Co. Building from 1906
- the Stewart Co. Store Building from 1914plus the site of Mark Twain's Funeral in 1910 at the Brick Presbyterian Church (demolihed)
Additional Highlights include:
- The Marble Collegiate Church, Norman Vincent Peal
- originally: The Wilbraham Hotel, bachelor flats for professional men opened 1890 with bathrooms
but no kitchens (added 1930's) & a dining room on the top floor. Romanesque Revival - some called it Belle Epoque
- Church of the Transfiguration, (The Actor’s Chapel / The Little Church Around the Corner)
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts originally: The Colony Club,
- Gilbert Kiame House also known as: The Grolier Club
- originally The Vanderbilt Hotel and the "Della Robbin Bar & Grill (The Crypt)
The slideshows are hosted by Alfred Pommer a college graduate, an author, an informative native New Yorker
& a licensed New York City guide, with over 30 years experience researching, creating & leading walking tours
in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods; and the author of 4 Manhattan neighborhood guide books
published by The History Press:
"Exploring the Original West Village" "Exploring Gramercy Park and Union Square"
"Exploring Manhattan's Murray Hill" "Exploring New York's SoHo"
Interested in a Private Slide Show ?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details http://nycwalk.com http://nycslideshow.com
All photographs on this web site are by Alfred Pommer
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is the property of Alfred Pommer and protected by United States and
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