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The Gargoyles of Gramercy Park Walking Tour & Slideshow
We don't see them but they see us
Gargoyles * * History * * Architecture * * Interesting Pictures & Stories

On this walking tour of Manhattan's Past & Present we follow the
gargoyles that take us from stop to stop. The slide show gives more information about Gramercy Park.
To view Gramercy Park slide show part 1 or part 2  (a minute to load)

I have interesting pictures & stories that join us with the neighborhood's past & photographs of all the distant gargoyles,
along with information about several historic buildings & sites that do not have gargoyles.

Each participant is given an itinerary with 9 stops for the 1 hour tour
or 15 stops for the 1½ hour tour. Each stop is fully discussed:

The Gramercy Park Gargoyle Walking Tours of the Past & Present Includes:
A walk through Gramercy Park Historic District & its environs.
And multiple photographs of the faraway gargoyles are shown

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Some interesting stops on the 1 hour walking tour:

  • Originally a girls vocational school with some great fanciful gargoyles
  • Impressive Winged Grotesque Gargoyles overlooking Gramercy Park
  • The Players Club
  • Find out about Humphrey Bogart, Edwin Booth, and John Barrymore Jr.
  • Find out about, David Graham Philips "The Literary Murder of the 20th Century" & the Princeton Club
  • Edwin Booth's statue and mansion
  • Stuyvesant Fish Mansion
  • Small grotesque winged gargoyles guarding an entrance
  • Outstanding gargoyles & 3 styles of architecture merge into one building

    • Some interesting stops on the 1½ hour walking tour:

  • A loft building from 1911 with several grotesque, winged, monster gargoyles
  • A building with key stone gargoyles
  • The birthplace and childhood home of Teddy Roosevelt and find out about Theodate Pope Riddle
  • A caryatid decorates this nondescript building
  • French Flats from 1878 with gargoyles & a Queen Ann style facade
  • A 7 story, neo-Renaissance styled loft / retail building with a chamfered corner, Pallidian windows, & gargoyles
  • Remnant of a Lord & Taylor Department Store from 1873

Meet at the southwest corner of Lexington Ave. & E. 22nd St.

The walking tour is given 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 walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.

Links to Alfred Pommer's author page at: amazon.com & at: goodreads for information about 4 Manhattan
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 Slide Show?
Call: (212) 979-2388 for details  www.nycslideshow.com -   www.nycwalk.com   or   e mail

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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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