A National Historic Landmark, the Plaza Hotel. Built in the style of a Renaissance château, the hotel has hosted the rich and famous for nearly a hundred years. With horse-drawn carriages near its entrance, colorful flags, and spiffy doormen, the Plaza paints a picture of sophistication
Location: 5th Ave. & 59th St.
Plaza Hotel
Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark museum, opened in 1959 shortly after Wright died, is an icon of Modernist architecture and designed specifically to showcase modern art.
Location: 5th Ave. & 89th St.
Guggenheim Museum
Designed by William Barnet Tuthill, who was also an amateur cellist, this renowned concert hall was paid for almost entirely by Andrew Carnegie. The 2,804-seat auditorium is one of the world's finest.
Location: 57th St. & 7th Ave.
Carnegie Hall
Opened in 1932, its 60-ft-high foyer, ceiling representing a sunset, and 2-ton chandeliers. this 6,000-seat art deco masterpiece is America's largest indoor theater.
Location: 1260 Ave. of the Americas
Radio City Music Hall
This Art Deco building was designed by architect Harvey Wiley Corbett in 1928.The building survived the 30's depression and it is actually a New York landmark
Location: Madison & 22nd St.
Metropolitan Insurance Building
Made of 8,000 tons of granite, with Massachusetts marble for the floors and fine Italian marble for the railings and trimmings, this monument entombs Civil War general and 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia
The monument was dedicated on April 27, 1897 and is the largest tomb in North America.
Location: Riverside Dr. & 122nd St.
General Grant National Memorial (Grant's Tomb)
This building was constructed in 1895 and named for Columbia’s 12th President, Seth Low. Today, Low Library houses the office of the President, as well as being home to the Columbia archival collection
Low’s general architectural style is based on the Pantheon in Rome and the Parthenon in Greece.
Location: Columbia University Campus, Broadway & 122nd St.
Columbia University Low Memorial Library
Manhattan’s oldest surviving house was built in 1765 as a summer residence for Colonel Roger Morris, a Loyalist, and his wife, Mary Philipse Morris. During the Revolutionary War the mansion was abandoned, and served as headquarters for General George Washington.
Location: Roger Morris Park, 65 Jumel Terrace (at 160th St. east of St. Nicholas Ave.)
Morris-Jumel Mansion
This double row of wooden two-story houses facing each other were built in 1882 on what was once the carriage drive for "Mount Morris". The houses were designed by Gilbert Robinson, Jr. in a then-common New York City building style. Together with the Jumel Terrace mansion and rowhouses, they are now part of the Jumel Terrace Historic District.
Location: Roger Morris Park, (160th St. east of St. Nicholas Ave.)
Sylvan Terrace