New York Architecture Tour – Upper East Side Tour

Shining with the tarnished gleam of New York’s Gilded Age, the ornate townhouses of the Upper East Side stand as monuments to the affluent families that played an essential role in the city’s growth. In this Upper East Side Architecture Tour, we will examine highlights from this Victorian era legacy including the Henry Clay Frick mansion, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the French Consulate, the Park Avenue Armory by Charles Clinton and renovated by Herzog de Meuron, and, of course, Central Park and the skyscrapers south of it by Rafael Viñoly, and SHoP Architects. In addition, our tour will look at modern masterpieces such as the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright and the MET Breuer (formerly Whitney Museum) by Marcel Breuer.