Gallery
- Around the Park
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#3&4: Doorways of the Greek Revival townhouses, design attributed to Alexander Jackson Davis, "one of America's most versatile 19th century architects"
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#15: The National Arts Club, former home of Samuel J. Tilden, remodeled for Tilden by Calvert Vaux
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19 Gramercy Park South, built in 1845 and remodeled in 1887 for Stuyvesant Fish. John Barrymore lived here while working on Broadway.
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#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.
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#36: An early apartment building (1905), it was once called the "Gramercy Clubhouse" Designed by James Riley Gordon
- Around the neighborhood
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Italianate townhouses on East 18th Street (1853), with cast-iron verandas reminiscent of the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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The former Children's Court, now part of Baruch College of CUNY
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Steeple of Epiphany Roman Catholic Church "The most positive modernist religious statement on Manhattan Island to date."
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Pete's Tavern, where urban legend has it that O. Henry wrote "The Gift of the Magi", was formerly the Portman Hotel.
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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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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)