MEET AT UNION SQUARE, IN FRONT OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON STATUE NEAR THE 14TH STREET SIDE OF THE PARK,


The fabulous BoweryBoys will take us on a private tour of Ladies’ Mile, 19th-century New York’s most famous shopping district, where splendid commercial palaces plied their wares to the city’s elite. Some of the greatest architects and artists of the time created lavish showrooms to entice and delight both shoppers and passers-by. The development of the Ladies’ Mile Historic District is a unique example of a landmarked neighborhood with commercial buildings that are still used for the very purpose for which they were built.

We will walk the neighborhood now known as Chelsea and the Flatiron District to see where wealthy women could shop without male companions, as the “carriage trade” developed in the mid-19th century. Residents of this neighborhood, such as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Edith Wharton, Samuel Morse, and members of the Roosevelt family, would have strolled the streets and shopped in the grand department stores, where every floor was filled with exquisite wares.

The buildings of the Ladies’ Mile district include some of the most important examples of lavish cast-iron architecture in New York City. Great dry goods emporia such as B. Altman’s, Siegel-Cooper, Hugh O’Neill, and Lord & Taylor, were shopping meccas designed to attract customers from all walks of life. These buildings still stand, and while the goods displayed are more prosaic, the grand architecture still elevates our experience today.

Emma Guest-Consales, Ph.D. is an experienced guide, lecturer, and author who has taught art and architectural history in New York City for more than fifteen years.

NOTE: This public tour normally costs $40,00. Private $65.00!

The tour will meet in Union Square in front of the George Washington statue near the 14th street side of the park.

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Exclusive Cast-Iron Architecture Tour of Ladies Mile -(meeting place on event page)

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