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Gilded Age Mansion Zoom Lectures with Ginny Poleman
Description: Explore the Gilded Age mansions of Manhattan with this virtual tour of those mansions still standing (and a few that have been unceremoniously demolished) situa...  (More)
HBO’s Gilded Age — Fact and Fiction
Description: In this bi-weekly series, each session will cover three episodes of HBO’s newest nine-episode drama, The Gilded Age. With historical perspective, Poleman will p...  (More)
History of the Flat Iron Building
Description: The Fuller Building, or more commonly known as the Flatiron Building, was never the tallest building in Manhattan, but it was one of the first to be built with ...  (More)
Monuments and Sculptures of Riverside Park
Description: Starting with the Beaux Arts-designed Grant’s Tomb — its history, architecture, and interior — Ginny Poleman will take you on a virtual tour of the statues and ...  (More)
New York City’s Magnificent Art Deco Mosaics of Hildreth Meière
Description: Native New York, Hildreth Meière was the most distinguished Art Deco muralist of her time, famous for her designs found on public buildings like Radio City Musi...  (More)
Walking Tour: 34th Street District — Macy’s, the Empire State Building, and Penn Station
Description: Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women traveled “uptown” to visit Saks, RH Macy’s and B. Altman’s in Herald Square, once a chic shopping district...  (More)
Walking Tour: Central Park’s Cleopatra’s Needle, Shakespeare, and Bears
Description: Join us for a scenic walking tour of Central Park. As a culminating field trip to her three-part series or as a stand-alone tour, the best way to see the NYC’s ...  (More)
Walking Tour: Central Park’s West Side: Carrousels, Taverns, and Strawberry Fields
Description: Join us for a scenic walking tour of Central Park. As a culminating field trip to her three-part series or as a stand-alone tour, the best way to see the NYC’s ...  (More)
Walking Tour: Chelsea During Halloween
Description: Historical Chelsea may be known as the birthplace of the poem The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore, but today, Chelsea is known for its Halloween c...  (More)
Walking Tour: Gilded Age Mansions of Museum Mile, Fifth Avenue from the Frick to Cooper Hewitt
Description: Join Ginny Poleman on this walk along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue as she tells the stories about the homes and their owners—people like Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Ca...  (More)
Walking Tour: Gilded Age Mansions of Museum Mile, Fifth Avenue from the Frick to Cooper Hewitt
Description: Join Ginny Poleman on a walk up Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue as she tells the stories about the homes and their owners—people like Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie...  (More)
Walking Tour: Grand Central Terminal
Description: How many times have you walked with speed and purpose through Grand Central Terminal without stopping to look at this world class landmark? This in-person walki...  (More)
Walking Tour: Historic Chelsea
Description: What do the Night Before Christmas, Oreos, and cowboys in New York City have in common? Learn that and much more as you take this two-hour walk through the hist...  (More)
Walking Tour: Ladies’ Mile, Shopping During the Gilded Age
Description: Long before the shopping mall, the idea of ‘window shopping’ was a recreational pastime for the women of the 1890s—strolling down Fifth Avenue, needing to lift ...  (More)
Walking Tour: Madison Square Park, Gramercy Park, and Stuyvesant Square Park
Description: Join Ginny Poleman on a summer visit to Madison Square Park—the former home of the first (and second) Madison Square Gardens. Next, we’ll stroll past Gramercy P...  (More)
Walking Tour: Real Clothes, Real Lives at the New York Historical
Description: Founded in 1804 as New York's first museum, the New-York Historical Society predates the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by nearly 70 years. Join Gin...  (More)
Walking Tours with Ginny Poleman
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