West 72nd: Queen of Streets with Special Guest Speaker Tom Miller
A journey along West 72nd Street can take you from Thai dumplings to deli sandwiches– or from Gothic spires to Flemish gables. It all depends on whether you’re looking up. Believe it or not, West 72nd Street was once a fashionable and exclusive residential street. In 1888, 60 upscale homes—mansions, some—had already been erected along it by architects such as Clarence True and Charles T. Mott who drew inspiration from a variety of historical styles. Don’t miss this special program by history fan favorite Tom Miller (aka the “Daytonian in Manhattan” blogger) for a time-bending online tour of West 72nd Street from Riverside Drive to Central Park. Historic photos and fascinating details of the past help us understand what was built and who lived along the “Queen of Streets” of the Upper West Side – before the stoops were removed and the stone façades were broken through for retail spaces; before mansions became a bustling commercial thoroughfare.
If you’re a Tom Miller fan, you already know how thoroughly we’ll be transported back in time; if you’re new to the “Daytonian” blogger, get ready to see West 72nd as you never have before! We need only look upwards to savor a glimpse of what was.
Speaker Tom Miller, a historian and preservationist, is the voice of Daytonian in Manhattan, a hugely popular blog started eleven years ago, in which he has covered more than 3,000 Manhattan buildings, statues, fountains and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating. His research and reporting focus as much on the social histories of buildings – the tragedies, triumphs and scandals of the people who built and lived there – as on their architecture and styles. He is the author of Seeking New York: The Stories Behind the Historic Architecture of Manhattan–One Building at a Time (Pimpernel Press, 2015) and his companion book, Seeking Chicago (Rizzoli International, 2018).
Where: Landmark West!
45 W. 67th St.
212-496-8110 Price: $15 nonmembers
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A journey along West 72nd Street can take you from Thai dumplings to deli sandwiches– or from Gothic spires to Flemish gables. It all depends on whether you’re looking up. Believe it or not, West 72nd Street was once a fashionable and exclusive residential street. In 1888, 60 upscale homes—mansions, some—had already been erected along it by architects such as Clarence True and Charles T. Mott who drew inspiration from a variety of historical styles. Don’t miss this special program by history fan favorite Tom Miller (aka the “Daytonian in Manhattan” blogger) for a time-bending online tour of West 72nd Street from Riverside Drive to Central Park. Historic photos and fascinating details of the past help us understand what was built and who lived along the “Queen of Streets” of the Upper West Side – before the stoops were removed and the stone façades were broken through for retail spaces; before mansions became a bustling commercial thoroughfare.
If you’re a Tom Miller fan, you already know how thoroughly we’ll be transported back in time; if you’re new to the “Daytonian” blogger, get ready to see West 72nd as you never have before! We need only look upwards to savor a glimpse of what was.
Speaker Tom Miller, a historian and preservationist, is the voice of Daytonian in Manhattan, a hugely popular blog started eleven years ago, in which he has covered more than 3,000 Manhattan buildings, statues, fountains and other points of interest that make Manhattan fascinating. His research and reporting focus as much on the social histories of buildings – the tragedies, triumphs and scandals of the people who built and lived there – as on their architecture and styles. He is the author of Seeking New York: The Stories Behind the Historic Architecture of Manhattan–One Building at a Time (Pimpernel Press, 2015) and his companion book, Seeking Chicago (Rizzoli International, 2018).
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