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Gargoyles & Architecture on Manhattan's Upper West Side
Walking Tour Consultations & Slideshows
We don't see them but they see us
Gargoyles * History * Architecture * Interesting Pictures & Stories

Exploring the Gargoyles on a Slice of Manhattan’s Upper West Side Slideshow
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This walking tour slideshow presentation explores the buildings displaying gargoyles, atlases (atlantid),
caryatids & other ornamentation; along with a subway kisok that is a New York City & a national landmark.
There are interesting pictures that document the area's past & photographs that expose the ever present
gargoyles that are still flying over our heads to remind us of the past.

Some of the interesting topics covered in the slideshow::

  • An apartment building that started life as a "Pythian Temple"
  • a landmark example of a 1904 "Control House."
  • Information about how an why the Upper West Side developed
  • Harsenville an Upper West Side colonial village that existed into the mid 19th century
  • Buildings displalying lion head gargoyles and / or grotesque gargoyles
  • And buildings exhibiting grotesque gargoyles as part of their decorations
  • A Building flaunting beautiful free standing amazons & atlases (atlantes)

The presentation created by Alfred Pommer an informative native New Yorker, a college graduate, author & a Licensed
New York City Guide, who has spent over 30 years researching, creating & leading walking tours
in Manhattan' many diverse neighborhoods.

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.

Interested in a private walking tour consultation or slide how presentation?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details -- www.nycwalk.com - www.nycslideshow.com   or   e mail

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