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Title: iPHOTOS: Grand Army Plaza, New York, April 16, 2009
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 24, 2009, 06:20:02 pm

iPhone Album


Grand Army Plaza:
(Fifth Avenue, between 58th and 60th Streets)

The Pulitzer Fountain, 1916
(by Karl Bitter, completed by
Isadore Konti and Karl Gruppe),

The Plaza Hotel, 1907
(by Hardenbergh and Hastings),

Bergdorf Goodman, 1928
(by architects Kahn & Jacobs),

The Metropolitan Club, 1893
(by Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White),

and

The Sherman Monument, 1903
(General William Tecumseh Sherman by
Augustus St. Gaudens)

New York,
Thursday, April 16, 2009
11:45AM
60 degrees Fahrenheit

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Title: Re: iPHOTOS: Grand Army Plaza, New York, April 16, 2009
Post by: Meryl on April 25, 2009, 02:06:45 am

Wow, thanks for this, John.  The trees look so beautiful in blossom, and I realize that I've never really looked at that fountain properly.   You make the city's details come alive.  8)