WOLFE WALKERS SPRING 2016 - justinsnewyork.com

The Wolfe Walkers ! ! Since 1969 | Spring 2016

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Sunday, April 3 Tales of TriBeCa Sunday, May 22 BUS: Historic Long Island
Stanford White & Friends
Saturday, April 16 Columbia, RSD & Grant’s Tomb Saturday, June 4 Queens Museum & World’s Fair Site

Saturday, April 30 Fordham Antiquities & Belmont Saturday, June 18

Sunday May 15 Wall Street: Finance & History

SPRING PROGRAM, 2016 MARCH 1, 2016

Dear Friends,

The Wolfe Walkers have a lot of unusual activities planned for this coming Spring season. We’ve

been blessed with lots of good suggestions from all of you. Among our various activities this season,
we’ll explore Finance & History on Wall Street and discover the Tales of TriBeCa. One very

special tour, Stanford White and His Friends, will explore an array of Stanford White’s Greenwich

Village projects while also focusing on the architect’s generous propensity for incorporating the
works of his talented artistic friends into his designs. Uptown, we’ll visit Columbia University,

Grant’s Tomb, and Riverside Drive – hopefully in time for the Cherry Blossom season. In the
Bronx, we’ll be touring the new Antiquities Museum at Fordham University, which will also give a

splendid opportunity to tour Fordham’s very handsome Gothic-styled campus and tour the adjacent

Italian neighborhood of Belmont. The recently expanded Queens Museum has received a lot of
good press, so we’ll be touring the new complex along with visiting the site of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. This season’s bus trip

will be an intentionally diverse array of sites in Historic Long Island. We’ll visit “Knothole” – a tiny cabin built by the popular author
Christopher Morley, followed by a visit to Sagamore Hill – the country estate built for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay – ending with

a flourish with a visit to Old Bethpage Village Historic Restoration.

Come join us for another exciting touring season! The Wolfe Walker Committee

Barbara Zimmerman, Johanna Sterbin, Patricia Myers,
Phillis & Manny Marko, Jacqueline Goossens, Barbara Flaxman,
Justin Ferate & Annaline and Robert Dinkelmann
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A Note From Gerard Wolfe:

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Flagstaff, Arizona!

So much time has passed and the Wolfe Walkers have had so many adventures! This season’s tours bring back many memories of
wonderful trips in the past. Learning of the Wolfe Walkers programs continues to rekindle my love for New York City!

Caecilia and I are excited for all your journeys and send you our very best.

Gerard & Caecilia Wolfe
652 North Amberwood Street,
Flagstaff, AZ 86004

(928) 526-4433
E-mail: [email protected]

WOLFE WALKERS: SPRING 2016 TOUR REGISTRATION

Please make your check payable to JOHANNA STERBIN and mail your coupon and check to:
THE WOLFE WALKERS
Park West Station
P. O. Box 20406
New York, NY 10025

PLEASE NOTE

• To encourage advance registration, there is a discounted fee for those whose payment has been received one week prior to
the date of the tour. The fees below are at the discounted rate. On-site fees will generally cost an additional $5.00 per tour.
When paying on-site, please pay by check. As always, no on-site registrations will be accepted for Bus or Boat Tours,
where there are limits on the group size, or when meals are included in the tour price. There are no discounted rates for Bus
or Boat Tours.

• The Wolfe Walkers do not extend credits or refunds for tours. All transactions are final.
• Since the Wolfe Walkers is coordinated by volunteers and due to the potential volume of mail, we do not automatically provide

tour confirmations. Your check will be your receipt. Tours operate rain or shine.

I (We) plan to join the Wolfe Walkers for the following events at the early registration prices. If applying a credit from a past tour, please

note amount in the credit box.

Fee Number Amount

Sunday April 3 Tales of TriBeCa $ 28 _________ ________

Saturday April 16 Columbia University, RSD & Grant’s Tomb $ 28 _________ ________
Saturday April 30 Fordham Antiquities & Belmont $ 30 _________ ________
Sunday May 15 Wall Street: Finance & History $ 30 _________ ________
Sunday May 22 BUS: Historic Long Island $ 140 _________ ________
Saturday June 4 Stanford White & Friends $ 28 _________ ________

Saturday June 18 Queens Museum & World’s Fair Site $ 34 _________ ________

Name(s): ___________________________________________________________________Amount Enclosed: $_________________________

Street_______________________________________________________________________Telephone (______)__________________________

City___________________________________State______________Zip Code________________E-Mail_________________________________

G r a s s o ’ s R e s t a u r a n t for Historic Long Island Bus Trip

Please check boxes with your choice for each individual course. There should be FOUR check marks for each person.

! CHOOSE ONE STARTER: House Salad ❏ Soup of the Day ❏

!CHOOSE ONE ENTRÉE:

❏Vegetarian Pasta: Zucchini Linguine – Spinach, Radicchio, Mushroom, Brussels Sprouts, Grape Tomato, G&O White Truffle Oil

❏ Gail’s Pear Salad with Grilled Salmon ❏ Chicken Francese: Chicken Breast in Egg Batter with lemon

❏ Steak Sandwich sautéed with Mushroom & Onions and Fontina Cheese on a Brioche Roll

❏ Flounder ala Grasso: Lightly Breaded Flounder, White Wine Sauce, Capers, Tomato, Basil & Garlic | Basmati Rice & Vegetable Medley

ALSO INCLUDES: White Chocolate Bread Pudding with Crème Anglaise

BEVERAGES: Coffee, Tea, Soda

ALL SPECIAL DIETARY REQUIREMENTS MUST BE NEGOTIATED IN ADVANCE

General Information: Tours go rain or shine unless you hear from us. If in doubt, please telephone. (For the record, no tours ever
have been canceled due to weather.) Unless specified, lunch is not included in the price of the tours. There are no discounted rates for
Bus or Boat Tours. Likewise, no refunds or credits will be extended for any tours. If you have any questions or comments, please E-
MAIL Justin Ferate at [email protected] or TELEPHONE at (212) 223-2777.

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Tales of TriBeCa

Walking Tour with Justin Ferate || Sunday, April 3, 2016

The neighborhood of “TriBeCa” or the “Triangle Below Canal” boasts of an almost magical
historical quality and a pervasive sense of a place lost in time. After the Civil War, shipping in
Manhattan shifted from the East River to the Hudson River. Huge steamships moored at the piers
on the Lower West Side and New York became one of the world’s greatest ports. In this area
along the Hudson, the Washington Market, would appropriate the Federal and Greek Revival
homes as warehouses for storage of produce. Large warehouse buildings with vast loft spaces
would be built to accommodate the new businesses. Today, since the markets have moved to the

Bronx - the loft spaces of “TriBeCa” have become extremely desirable for residential use.

Date: Sunday, April 3, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM - about 1:00 PM
Meet: Outside the Franklin Street Subway Station:
Triangular Center Island in middle of intersection
Trains: IRT 1 Train to Franklin Street
Leader: Justin Ferate
Fee: $ 28 in advance
$ 33 on-site (By check to Johanna Sterbin)

A Little Bit of Paris: Columbia University, Riverside Drive, Grant’s Tomb & International House

Walking Tour with Justin Ferate || Saturday, April 16, 2016

The site of the General Grant National Memorial was an important site in the American
Revolution. High on a promontory, overlooking the Hudson River, it was here that President
George Washington had envisioned building the United States Capitol. Join tour leader Justin
Ferate as we discover this romantic Parisian-inspired neighborhood, conceived by Calvert Vaux
and Frederick Law Olmsted to be the pivotal sight on their grand Parisian-style thoroughfare,
Riverside Drive.

We’ll begin our tour with a visit to the Columbia
University campus, designed by Charles Follen McKim
of McKim, Mead & White. We’ll view the iconic Low
Library and the beloved statues of Alma Mater, by
Daniel Chester French and The Thinker by Auguste
Rodin. If available, we hope to visit St. Paul’s Chapel,
with its splendid Guastavino vaulted ceilings and
magnificent stained glass windows by John La Farge.
As we stroll the neighborhood, we’ll discuss institutions such as Barnard College, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary.
We’ll visit and explore Grant’s Tomb – modeled after Les Invalides in Paris – the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Discover the International House New York, a private, non-profit residence and program center oriented to international graduate
students, scholars engaging in research, trainees, and interns. Founded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to foster international
communications, the informal daily interaction among its 700 international residents, from over 100 countries, combine with specially
designed programs, facilities and residential life to foster diversity of thought and experience. International House has been known to
attract prominent guest speakers through the years, from Eleanor Roosevelt and Isaac Stern to Sandra Day O'Connor and Nelson
Mandela.

The original entrance to International House is inscribed with the motto written by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: "That Brotherhood May
Prevail.” The 500 Riverside Drive building, designed in the Italianate style by architects Louis E. Jallade and Marc Eidlitz and Sons,
was built in 1924 and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as International House in 1999.

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Adjacent to International House is another Rockefeller bequest: Sakura Park (“sakura” means “cherry blossom” in Japanese), the site
of Japan's original gift of cherry trees to New York City in 1912. (Hopefully, they’ll be in bloom!) In 1960, the City of Tokyo gave the
gift of a tōrō lantern, when New York became her sister city. Former Crown Prince and current Emperor of Japan, Akihito, attended
the official dedication on October 10 of that year. Crown Prince Akihito would later rededicate the tōrō with his princess in 1987.

Dominating Sakura Park are two walkways lined with mature linden trees, with
branches meeting overhead, to form a leafy arcade. Between the two walkways is
a lawn, ornamented with a gazebo and planted with cherry trees. When the cherry
trees bloom, people of Japanese ancestry come to celebrate Hanami (flower
viewing) and spread picnic blankets under the trees. The cherry bloom is preceded
in spring by bulbs, beginning with snowdrops and continuing through tulips. This is

one of New York’s treasured “secret gardens!”

We’ll also view a little-known bronze statue of General Daniel Adams Butterfield by the noted sculptor Gutzon Borglum (of Mount
Rushmore fame). The statue is oriented toward Grant's Tomb across Riverside Drive positioning Butterfield to view the tomb of his
fellow Civil War general and the president in whose cabinet he served. General Butterfield experimented with bugle calls for his troops

and is credited with the composition of “Taps.”

Date: Saturday, April 16, 2016
Time: 1:00 PM to approximately 4:00 PM
Meet: East side of Broadway at West 116th Street – at the entrance of
“College Walk” at Columbia University.
Trains: 2/3 Express Train to 96th Street and transfer to 1 Local Train to
116th Street.
Leader: Justin Ferate, Urban Historian
Fee: $ 28 in advance
$ 33 on-site (By check to Johanna Sterbin)

Fordham Museum of Greek, Roman & Etruscan Art + Fordham University + Belmont

Walking Tour with Justin Ferate || Saturday, April 30, 2016

Discover the antiquities of the Fordham University Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art with tour
leader Justin Ferate. Located in the William D. Walsh Family Library, the antiquities museum occupies 4,000
square feet of space on the main floor of the Library. It features more than 260 antiquities dating from the 10th
century BCE through the 3rd century CE. The collection spans several periods, Mycenaean, Villanovan, Classical
Greece, Geometrical, Archaic Roman, Imperial Roman, Republican, Etruscan, and South Italian. There are red-
figure and red-and-black-figure ceramics, and the shiny black Etruscan pottery known as Bucchero, as well as an
array of sculpture and terra cotta heads.

Delight in a stroll through the jewel-like splendor of the Fordham University campus.
Today, Fordham, with its shaded green lawns and it handsome Gothic structures, is one of
the largest Roman Catholic institutions in America. In the 1840s, Fordham University was
called “St. John’s College” and the clarion bells from its main tower inspired Edgar Allan
Poe’s poem, “The Bells.” We’ll visit the 19th century quadrangle of the original St. John’s
College campus and visit the magnificent St. John’s Chapel. Contributing to the richness
of the interior and relieving the simplicity of the exterior are stained glass windows donated
by King Louis Philippe of France. The present altar, Installed in 1943, came from St.
Patrick's Cathedral on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, where it had served for over sixty years.

Then, almost by surprise, we’ll be in Italy…. well, almost. Belmont is often considered to be New York’s most authentic working class
Italian neighborhood. It’s like the back streets of Naples, the eastern neighborhoods of Rome, or the tenements behind Milan
Cathedral. Belmont is a unique neighborhood that was the first home to tens of thousands of Italian immigrants and has maintained its
unique flavor for almost one hundred years. Indeed, the aroma of fresh bread wafts in the air as clean laundry hangs out to dry.

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Markets are abundant with fresh vegetables, fruits, and bunches of fresh oregano – along with mounds of olives and piñoli nuts. Be
dazzled by the array of Italian cheeses, including freshly made mozzarella. Stroll through the salumerias, bakeries, and pasta shops.

Lunch at one of the dining venues or visit Belmont’s popular pastry shops and
espresso bars. Perhaps you’ll hear the church bells of Our Lady of Mount

Carmel. Somewhere in the distance, amidst the murmur of Italian conversation
in the restaurant, you may even hear the warm, romantic sounds of Dion and the

Belmonts, crooning on a nearby street corner. Ciao bella!

Date: Saturday, April 30, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM to about 2:30/3:00 PM
Meet: Outside the Fordham Road Metro-North Train Station at Fordham Road and Third Avenue (aka Firefighters
Boulevard). Since we must accommodate Fordham Security protocols, we will enter the Fordham campus as a
Subway: group. Please arrive promptly so as not to delay the others.
D Train to Fordham Road. Walk EAST (downhill) along Fordham Road to the meeting place, which is about a 10-
Metro-North: minute walk. The Metro-North train station will be on your left, opposite a large bus plaza. Please allow at least an
hour from Manhattan to arrive at the meeting place (50 minutes by subway + the 10-minute walk to Third Avenue).
IMPERATIVE: Should one want to transfer to a NYC bus, rather than walk to the meeting place, take the Bx12 or Bx22 on Fordham
Leader:
Lunch: Road – heading EAST toward the University. Bring your Metro Card for a free transfer.
Leader: For some, taking the Metro North Train from Grand Central to the Fordham Station is the perfect answer. One-way
Fee: off-peak Senior rate = $3.25 ($6.50 Adults). This will drop you at the meeting place. From Belmont, you may opt to

take Metro North or the subway home. Be certain to bring your Metro card!
Photo ID will be required to enter the Fordham Campus. Don’t forget!
Justin Ferate, Urban Historian
There are numerous luncheon options in Belmont.
Justin Ferate, Urban Historian
$ 30 in advance
$ 35 on-site (By check to Johanna Sterbin)

Wall Street: Finance & History

Walking Tour with Justin Ferate & Annaline Dinkelmann || Sunday, May 15, 2016

Join Annaline Dinkelmann, Owner and Founder of Wall Street
Walks and Justin Ferate, with a background in architectural
and social history, on this tour of Wall Street from two different

perspectives.

From the era of the Colonial Dutch to the present day,
American Finance has resonated throughout the canyons of
Wall Street. Grasp the origins of Wall Street – from the
international prowess of the New York’s waterfront, to the founding of the NY Stock Exchange under a buttonwood tree, to the world of
today with high-speed international communications. We’ll focus on the workings of “The Street” as well as the historical political

implications of this thoroughfare that once defined the northern boundary of Nieuw Amsterdam.

In addition, we’ll discuss the religious implications of Wall Street, with its two grand churches, Trinity Church and its smaller chapel, St.
Paul’s – arguably our national church – where President George Washington went to pray after his inauguration.

Learn about financial icons J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and John D. Rockefeller and how they made history. Discover the
importance of the Dow Jones Index so you can understand what financial shows are talking about when they give their closing bell

reports.

A few of the many sites include the New York Stock Exchange, J. P. Morgan Guaranty Trust, Fraunces Tavern, the American Stock
Exchange, and the Federal Reserve Bank.

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Date: Sunday, May 15, 2016
Time: 10:00 AM to about 1:00 PM
Meet: Outside of Trinity Church Wall Street, located at Broadway and Wall Street.
Trains: IRT 4/5 to Wall Street (This places you at Trinity Church.)
IRT 2/3 to Wall Street (You may have to walk a block or so to Trinity Church.)
Leaders: Justin Ferate, Urban Historian and Annaline Dinkelmann, Owner & Founder of Wall Street Walks
Fee: $ 30 in advance
$ 35 on-site (By check to Johanna Sterbin)

Historic Long Island: “Knothole,” Sagamore Hill & Old Bethpage Village

Bus and Walking Tour with Justin Ferate || Sunday, May 22, 2016

Join Tour Leader Justin Ferate for a delightful day discovering Historic Long Island. We’ll view a “cabin in the woods,” the country
mansion built for President Theodore Roosevelt, and an historic village with structures dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries.

First, we’ll peek into “Knothole” – a tiny one-room wooden cabin built as a writer’s studio by the prominent Long Island editor and
writer Christopher Morley. Morley, one of the foremost American “men of letters” in the 20th century, was a prolific writer who produced
more than fifty books, including several popular novels, plays, poetry, and essays. He also edited two volumes of “Bartlett’s Familiar
Quotations” and was a founder of the Book of the Month Club. Morley wrote of his work retreat: "I built myself a pine-wood cabin, as

aloofly jungled as a Long Island suburb would permit."

Constructed in 1934, Knothole includes built-in
bookshelves, a fireplace, and a bunk bed. Over the years,

the public has been most intrigued by Knothole’s
“Dymaxion” bathroom, which was designed in 1936 by

Morley’s friend, the renowned scientist and inventor

Buckminster Fuller. The bathroom is a one-piece, pre-
assembled unit, similar to restrooms in use on airplanes.

Viewing doors have been installed in the cabin so that the

public can peek in and see the interior of the studio and bathroom.

Located in a quiet corner of the park, The Knothole is framed by trees and greenery. Coming close to the structure, one notices a motto
in Latin above the door. It is a quote from Erasmus (1466-1536), the Dutch scholar and philosopher for whom Erasmus Hall in

Flatbush, Brooklyn was named. The phrase translates as: "How Busy You Are in Your Library, Which is Your Paradise."

Next, we’ll travel to Oyster Bay for a rare opportunity to visit
the new $10 million restoration of Sagamore Hill, the home

built for Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the

United States – who lived here from 1885 until his death in
1919. Named after the Indian chief Sagamore Mohannis,

Sagamore Hill stands atop Cove Neck on 95 acres of forest,
tidal salt marsh, and bay beach. In 1884, Roosevelt hired

the prestigious New York architectural firm of Lamb and
Rich to design a shingle-style, Queen Anne home for the property. The twenty-two-room home was completed for $16,975. In 1905

Roosevelt expanded the house – adding the largest room he called the "North Room" (40’x30’) for $19,000. Overall today, the home

has twenty-three rooms. This very historic home is unique in that what you see inside is 99 percent original.

The first floor contains the large center hall, library, dining room, kitchen, and drawing room. The massive North Room houses
Theodore Roosevelt’s collection of trophies, books, paintings, sculptures, library, and dozens of priceless artifacts given to him by

foreign dignitaries. Up the stairs, the second floor contains the bedrooms, nursery, guest rooms, and a turn of the century water closet
with a uniquely large porcelain tub (a luxury in those days). A spacious raised porch shaded by an unmistakable green awning

surrounds the house.

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The house and its surrounding farmland became the primary residence of Theodore and Edith Roosevelt for the remainder of their
lives. Sagamore Hill took on its greatest importance when it became known as the "Summer White House” during the seven summers
(1902-1908) Theodore Roosevelt spent there as President.

Theodore Roosevelt described Sagamore Hill as follows:

The house stands right on top of the hill, separated by fields and belts of woodland from all other houses, and looks out
over the bay and the Sound. We see the sun go down beyond long reaches of land and water.

We love all the seasons: the snows and bare woods of winter; the rush of growing things and the blossom-spray of
spring; the yellow grain, the ripening fruits and tasseled corn, and the deep leafy shades that are heralded by 'the green
dance of summer'.....and the sharp fall winds that tear the brilliant banners with which the trees greet the dying year.

Lunch will be at Grasso’s – an Italian trattoria in the delightful former whaling village of Cold Spring Harbor.

After lunch, we’ll travel to Old Bethpage Village Restoration – a

living history museum that provides visitors with the unique
opportunity to step back in time and experience life as it was on Long

Island during the 19th century. The village consists of 36 houses,

barns, and buildings dating from 1765 through 1865. Buildings were
moved to Old Bethpage from various locations around Long Island

and then restored to recreate a prototypical mid-1800s community. Situated on 209 acres, Old Bethpage

Village Restoration has so many options from which to choose, we may want to return in the future.

Old Bethpage is more than a collection of historic houses. A knowledgeable staff of costumed
interpreters brings the buildings to life with facts and stories about the houses and the people who
occupied them. Visitors can enjoy root beer and pretzels at the Noon Inn bar, and purchase candy sticks
at the Layton Store. Just down the road, the ring of the blacksmith’s hammer can be heard, while across
the way the hatter is putting the finishing touches on a gentleman’s hat. Elsewhere ladies are sewing and knitting, candles are being
made, and the potter is shaping clay into fine ceramic pieces. On weekends you may find a decoy carver at the Conklin House, or a

weaver in the Cooper House. Many will be thrilled at the Powell Farm where there is an assortment of farm animals.

Date: Sunday, May 22, 2016
Time:
8:00 AM – about 5:30/6:00 PM
Meet:
The bus will depart promptly at 8:00 AM
Bus:
Note: 7:45 AM at Hotel Waldorf=Astoria. Bus generally parks on East 49th Street, between

Restrooms: Lexington and Park Avenues – closer to Park Avenue.
Snack:
Trains: Look for the Yellow, White & Black Passaic Valley Coach

There is no guaranteed meeting place for the bus. If you cannot find the bus along East 49th Street or are running

late, please telephone (917) 660-6490 on the day of the tour.

Restrooms are available at the hotel. There is a Starbuck’s at 280 Park Avenue at 49th Street.

You may want to bring a snack or beverage for the bus ride.

6 Train to 51st Street (at Lexington Avenue)

Morning: 8:45 AM – View “Knothole” at Christopher Morley Park

10:00 – Arrive at Sagamore Hill for tour.

11:30 AM – Depart for Luncheon

Luncheon: Noon – 1:45 PM at Grasso’s in Cold Spring Harbor

Afternoon: 2:15 PM – 4:00 PM Old Bethpage Village Restoration

IMPORTANT: Please be certain to mark your menu selections on the Registration Form.
Fee: $ 140 (No on-site registration)
Includes: Bus, Guided Tours, Luncheon at Grasso’s Restaurant, Admissions, and Gratuities
Leader: Justin Ferate, Urban Historian

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Stanford White and Friends

Walking Tour with Justin Ferate || Saturday, June 4, 2016

Join Justin Ferate as we seek out monuments and memories of one of this nation’s
greatest architects: Stanford White, while also focusing on White’s generous embracing of

the works of his fellow artists. We’ll begin at the Renwick Triangle, to view the site where

Stanford White was born. Traveling to Cooper Square, we’ll view the statue of Peter
Cooper – a sculpture by White’s long-time friend, Augustus St. Gaudens with a

neoclassical base and granite entablature designed by Stanford White. Moving westward,
we’ll travel the byways of Greenwich Village to see White’s magnificent Italianate creation,

Judson Memorial Church, complete with an Italian campanile (bell tower). The church

boasts of remarkable stained glass windows by White’s good friend, John La Farge. We’ll
also view and discuss the history of what is possibly Stanford White’s most beloved

monument: Washington Arch, dedicated to the Inauguration of the first President of the United States. Originally created as a
temporary parade arch of plaster and wood, it was so well received that Stanford White was asked to make the arch a permanent

fixture in Greenwich Village. The arch, modeled on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, boasts of a panoply of sculptural works by artist

friends of Stanford White: Frederick MacMonnies, Hermon A. MacNeil, and A. Stirling Calder.

En route, we’ll also discuss White’s inordinately active social life with buildings such as the Benedick (featured
in Edith Wharton’s novel, House of Mirth), the Salmagundi Club, and the Tile Club, which was remodeled by
White. We’ll also note the site of the 10th Street Studio Building, designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt in
1857 as the first modern artists’ studio building in the United States. This building was the center of New York’s

art world (and the home base for many of Stanford White’s friends) throughout the remainder of the 19th century.

Soon after its completion, the building helped make Greenwich Village the center of the arts in New York City,
drawing artists from all over the country to work, exhibit, and sell their art. In its initial years, Winslow Homer

took a studio there, as did William Merritt Chase and John La Farge, and many of the artists of the Hudson River
School lived and worked here, including Frederic Edwin Church, Lockwood de Forest, J. F. Kensett, Sandford Gifford, Jervis McEntee,

and Albert Bierstadt. Three generations of the Alexander Calder family lived in the 10th Street Studio Building.

For a diversion, we’ll also view the home of Lockwood de Forest and the adjacent Ava, which was once home to the beloved
Greenwich Village writer Dawn Powell. The buildings are replete with exquisite East Indian teak carvings conceived and executed for
Lockwood de Forest, a prominent decorator and associate of Louis Comfort Tiffany (and, of course, a friend of Stanford White). These

two structures are an absolute delight for the eye!

We’ll also discover the Church of the Ascension, designed in 1840 by noted architect Richard Upjohn (Trinity Church Wall Street).
During the years 1885-1889, Stanford White hired a group of artists in redesigning the church’s interiors. John La Farge created the
immense altar mural – one of the finest in the nation. Other details were by Louis St. Gaudens, David Maitland Armstrong, and Charles

Follen McKim. The church is truly a Stanford White ensemble!

Come join us! There’s much more to see on this jaunt as we discover some of the New York’s great treasures by Stanford White and
his friends!

Date: Saturday, June 4, 2016
Time: 1:00 PM – about 4:30 PM
Meet: By the small triangular viewing park at Third Avenue at Stuyvesant Street. This is

Trains: just one short block north of St. Mark’s Place.
IRT 6 Train to Astor Place. Walk north along Third Avenue to Stuyvesant Street,
Fee: which is the only true “East-West” street in Manhattan (so it appears to be

Leader: positioned on a diagonal).
$ 28 in advance
$ 33 on-site (By check to Johanna Sterbin)
Justin Ferate, Urban Historian

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THE NEW QUEENS MUSEUM & THE 1939 & 1964 WORLD’S FAIR SITE

Museum Visit and Walking Tour with Justin Ferate || Saturday, June 18, 2016

The Queens Museum structure was built as the New
York City Building – to house the New York City Pavilion
at the 1939 World’s Fair. The building was directly
adjacent to the great icons of the Fair, the Trylon and
Perisphere, and it was one of the few buildings created
for the Fair that were intended to be permanent. It is now
the only surviving building from the 1939 World’s Fair.
One of the proudest periods in the history of the New
York City Building was from 1946 to 1950 when it housed the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations. Today, that
original building has been transformed. Join Justin as we tour some of the current exhibitions in this newly expanded Queens
Museum. In addition, we’ll have the opportunity to view some of the museum’s several beloved ongoing exhibitions.

We will visit the Panorama of the City of New York – the jewel in the crown of the
collection of the Queens Museum of Art. Built by Robert Moses for the 1964 World’s
Fair, in part as a celebration of the City’s municipal infrastructure, this 9,335 square
foot architectural model includes every single building constructed before 1992 in all
five boroughs; that is a total of 895,000 individual structures. The Panorama is the
one exhibit recalled by virtually everyone who has ever visited the Queens Museum.

The Panorama was one of the most successful attractions at the 1964 Fair with a daily average of 1,400 visitors. In 1992, Lester
Associates changed over 60,000 structures to bring it up-to-date. Subsequently, the installation of new buildings on the Panorama –
including Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, and 27 buildings in Battery
Park City, among others – allow recent additions to the urban landscape to be reflected.

Now on display in the new wing of the Queens Museum is the ever-beloved Egon and Hildegard Neustadt
Collection of Tiffany Glass. The inaugural exhibition for the gallery is Shade Garden: Floral Lamps from the
Tiffany Studios, which features 20 lamps exemplifying Tiffany’s masterful translation of nature into glass. Lamps of
all shapes and sizes reveal the extraordinary artistry required to accurately portray complicated blossom shapes
and the unruly growth patterns of flowers as well as their nuances of color and texture. Lampshades adorned with
profusions of wisteria, peonies, pond lilies, and poppies abound – including some of the most beloved and iconic
Tiffany motifs. Also on display is a remarkable display of Tiffany lamps, windows, metalwork, and ephemera, as
well as an immense one-of-a-kind archive of Tiffany flat and pressed-glass "jewels” left over from Tiffany’s studios,
which were located in nearby Corona, Queens, where, until the late 1930s, Tiffany maintained busy studios,
extensive glass furnaces, and a large bronze foundry.

The Queens Museum will always be inextricably linked to the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs, and now

on display is a collection of more than 10,000 objects pertaining to the two expositions. The newly
installed World’s Fair Visible Storage and Gallery on the second floor displays more than 900
three-dimensional pieces arranged by the date of each World’s Fair, and within these categories,
arranged by donor. The dense installation provides an opportunity to study a large number of related
works of World’s Fair objects up close, and to compare and contrast a wide range of items from
1939 and 1964. The Visible Storage provides unprecedented access to explore the collection that
was formerly tucked away in the Museum’s art vault. Many of these objects have never been
displayed in the history of the Queens Museum.

In the 1930s, nearly 900 acres of central Queens was transformed into a vast showplace of
innovation and creativity for the 1939-40 World’s Fair. Prior to that, the area had been used by the
City of Brooklyn as ash dumps. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby,” the area was
referred to as “The Valley of Ashes.” The 1939 World’s Fair site was re-imagined a generation later for the 1964-65 World’s Fair, after
which it became Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the flagship city park of Queens and one of the largest green spaces in the five

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boroughs. After our visit to the Queens Museum, we’ll take a brief walking tour of this vibrant public space to learn about the remaining
landmarks from the World’s Fairs, and the incredible history of two of New York’s most important cultural events.

Date: Saturday, June 18, 2016
Time:
Meet: 1:00 PM to about 4:00 PM
Queens Museum, located in the New York City Building in Flushing
Train: Meadows – Corona Park. From Manhattan, please allot at least 45-50

Bus: minutes travel time.
Auto: IRT #7 Flushing Line. Exit Mets-Willets Point, the second to the last
Leader: stop on the #7 Train. Follow the signs to Flushing Meadows Corona
Fee:
Park through the exit ramp of the station into the park. Follow the signs

toward the right on a ten-minute walk through the park to the museum,
which is located next to the Unisphere, the giant steel globe. Please

allot 15 minutes for the walk from the Mets-Willets Point subway station

to the museum.
Q48 to Roosevelt Avenue and 111th Street. Walk south through park (toward Unisphere).
Q23, Q58 to Corona Avenue and 51st Avenue. Walk east through park.

http://www.queensmuseum.org/directions

Justin Ferate, Urban Historian

$ 34 in advance (Includes Admissions)

$ 39 on-site (Includes Admissions) (By check to Johanna Sterbin)

IN MEMORIAM

Miriam R. Olanoff

1925 – 2015
Long-time Wolfe Walkers Committee Member
One of the founding members of the Wolfe Walkers, Mimi was an exceptional person and had a very happy
marriage with Marty Olanoff. In keeping with her profession in Education, Mimi acted as a well-loved
“mother” to countless people over the years. Mimi was fascinated by the world around her and was always
seeking the wonders of the world, but especially New York City. Mimi was a good friend to all.

Hermine (“Mickie”) Mae Watterson

1934 – 2015
Long-time Wolfe Walkers Committee Member
Always an enthusiastic group member, Mickie’s background as a professional librarian allowed Mickie to
participate with the Wolfe Walkers in countless ways. Bright and often witty, Mickie derived joy from
helping others by volunteering her skills for community organizations. Among Mickie’s greatest delights,
in her later years, was the garden maintained by the residents in her building in the Flatiron District.

A Memorial Fund has been established to honor Mickie Watterson by awarding a scholarship
and planting a living memorial in the garden, at her residence, that she so loved.

Please send contributions to:
Mickie Watterson Memorial Fund

352 West 117th Street, #4-D
New York, NY 10026-1558

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