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S. F. Vilas Home for Aged & Infirmed Ladies is a historic multiple dwelling located at Plattsburgh in Clinton County, New York. It was built in 1889-1890 and is a three-story, brick, monumental multiple dwelling structure in the Queen Anne style. It features truncated hipped roofs with cross-gable wings, corbelled decorative chimneys, and bands ...
First Colony Club House, New York City, NY. In 1973, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's birthday party was held at the Colony Club (among the guests were four couples whom Kissinger had ordered to be wiretapped [citation needed]). In 2007, memorial services for Brooke Astor were held there. The club continues its policy of women-only ...
Sisters of St. Dominic Motherhouse Complex, is a historic convent complex and national historic district at 555 Albany Avenue in North Amityville, Suffolk County, New York. The complex consists of five contributing buildings, a cemetery, and grotto. Rosary Hall (formerly the novitiate for the sisters whose original motherhouse was at Graham and ...
The Women's University Club made the Allerton Hotel its headquarters beginning in May 1956. Their former headquarters was the New York Biltmore Hotel. [15] The Allerton Hotel at 302 West 22nd Street, New York City, was described as a welfare hotel in a 1990 article. A crying newborn baby was found in a garbage can there by a porter.
Harriet Tubman Residence Thompson A.M.E. Zion Church. Harriet Tubman moved with her parents from St.Catharines, Ontario to Auburn, New York, in 1857. They relocated to a brick home on the outskirts of Auburn located at 180 South Street that she had purchased from an acquaintance William H. Seward, which was an illegal transaction.
Between the Civil War and World War I, the district was the location of some of New York's most famous department stores and upscale retailers, including B. Altman, Best & Co., Arnold Constable, Bergdorf Goodman, Gorham Silver, Thurn, W. & J. Sloane, Lord & Taylor, and Tiffany & Co. [8] [2] The Ladies' Mile also boasted upscale restaurants ...
Knickerbocker Mansion is a historic home located at Schaghticoke in Rensselaer County, New York. The property was occupied by the Knickerbocker family for nearly 250 years, from about 1707 until 1946. [2] The mansion was built by Johannes Knickerbacker III around 1770.
Historic Huguenot Street is located in New Paltz, New York, approximately 90 miles (140 km) north of New York City.The seven stone houses and several accompanying structures in the 10-acre National Landmark Historic District were likely built in the early 18th century by Huguenot settlers fleeing discrimination and religious persecution in France and what's now southern Belgium.