Gramercy Park - Gallery

Gallery

  • Around the Park

  • #3&4: Doorways of the Greek Revival townhouses, design attributed to Alexander Jackson Davis, "one of America's most versatile 19th century architects"

  • #15: The National Arts Club, former home of Samuel J. Tilden, remodeled for Tilden by Calvert Vaux

  • 19 Gramercy Park South, built in 1845 and remodeled in 1887 for Stuyvesant Fish. John Barrymore lived here while working on Broadway.

  • #28: The Brotherhood Synagogue was a stop on the Underground Railroad when it was a Quaker meeting house The Travelers' Aid Society grew out of one of the congregation's activities.

  • #36: An early apartment building (1905), it was once called the "Gramercy Clubhouse" Designed by James Riley Gordon

  • Around the neighborhood

  • Italianate townhouses on East 18th Street (1853), with cast-iron verandas reminiscent of the French Quarter of New Orleans.

  • The former Children's Court, now part of Baruch College of CUNY

  • Steeple of Epiphany Roman Catholic Church "The most positive modernist religious statement on Manhattan Island to date."

  • Pete's Tavern, where urban legend has it that O. Henry wrote "The Gift of the Magi", was formerly the Portman Hotel.

  • A converted carriage house on East 19th Street between Irving Place and Third Avenue, a block often referred to as "Block Beautiful"

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