Highlights Of The Gramercy Park Slideshow Presentation:
- The National Arts Club, originally a Victorian Gothic mansion for Samuel Tilden
- The Players Club, was a gift so actors could mingle with normal people
- The site where O. Henry lived and wrote "The Gift of the Magi"
- Originally: Friends (Quaker) Meeting House from 1859
- Fnd out about the "Block Beautiful"
- 81 Irving Place, gargoyles
- 120 E. 19 St., Ida Tarbell
- The National Arts Club Studio Building, 1906
- Robert Henri lived, worked and taught here
- The Stuyvesant Fish Mansion from 1887
- Theda Bara and Mrs Patrick Campbell lived here
- The statue of Edwin Booth as "Hamlet"
- John Garfield died here
- Calvery Church (Eleanor Roosevelt - Alcoholic’s Anonymous)
- Where William Rose Benet and Elinor Wylie lived and where she died
- See some great gargoyles that overlook Gramercy Park and John Barrymore Jr. lived here
- The site of New York City's first apartment house and a picture of it (demolished 50 years ago)
It was mentioned in the novel "Time and Again"
Also from "Time and Again" the boarding house that Julia worked in and Sy lived in
Find Out About:
- The development of Gramercy Park and "Manhattan's Four Squares"
- David Graham Philips "The Literary Murder of the 20th Century" & the Princeton Club
- America's greatest tragic actor, his infamous brother and his father: 'the mad tragedian'
- The New York Governor who ran for president, won the popular vote and lost the election
- Some more famous past residents of the Gramercy Park neighborhood such as: Lincoln Kirstein, Mrs.Patrick Campbell,
Thomas Edison, James Harper, George Templeton Strong,
Robert Winthrop Chanler, Carl Van Vechten, Calvert Vaux.
The private slideshows are 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 and leading walking tours
in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.
These are 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 non-fiction neighborhood walking tour guide books
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