Gargoyles in Manhattan Walking Tours

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The Flatiron District & Gargoyles Walking Tour Consultation or Slideshow
We don't see them but they see us
Gargoyles * History * Architecture * Interesting Pictures & Stories

A Walking Tour / Slideshow of the Past and the Present
Flatiron District Slideshow Presentation view slide show part 1
Flatiron District Slideshow Presentation view slide show part 2

I discuss gargoyles, their original function, types of gargoyles & legends / myths connected to gargoyles
along with New York City history, architecture & stories connected to the Flatiron District.
Also included are building with Atlases, Caryatides & other types of ornamentations.

The slideshow of Manhattan's Past & Present includes:
information about The Flatiron District & lots of photographs of distant gargoyles
along with pictures related to the area's past

  • The New York Life Insurance Co. Building
  • The Metropolitan Life Tower
  • A site with remnants of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Sava
  • originally: The Scribner Building from 1894 displaying console brackets with lion head gargoyles
  • A building from 1912 with its neo Medieval facade & atlantes
  • The block & site where Edith Wharton was born & raised
  • A moderate Queen Ann style landmark building designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh
  • Find out about the elite Fifth Avenue Hotel - one of the city's most luxurious hotels
  • Find out about "Seward's Folly"
  • Sohmer Piano Co. building & notice the gargoyles
  • Belle Epoque styled building from 1895 & the site of Delmonico's
  • The site where Winston Churchill's mother lived
  • A 1899 Beaux Arts styled court house & 4 elegant caryatids "Winter" "Autumn" "Summer" "Spring"
  • A building from 1912 with several large Dragon gargoyles overlooking Madison Square.
  • The first Art Nouveau memorial in America
  • A building's facade with 5 lion head gargoyles ± several grotesque gargoyles & a small but impressive
    "Aesthic Movement" lobby & a mural with lounging Classical muses & a barrel vaulted coffered ceiling
  • The Flatiron Building has over a dozen gargoyles
  • The obelisk & grave site of Major General William J. Worth
  • A loft building with an Art Nouveau facade
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The he slideshow was created 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.

These are links to Alfred Pommer's author page at: amazon.com & at: goodreadsfor 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 Consultation or Slide Show? — Call: (212) 979-2388 for details
www.nycwalk.com   or   e mail

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