Henry Hope Reed papers, 1911-1998

Series II: New York Walking Tours


Subseries 1: Uptown Manhattan (above 59th)


Box 32 Folder 14 Central Park - Guide Notes, 1960s-1980s

Includes "Historical Perspective," "The North Section of Central Park," "An Outline History of Central Park," "Brief Chronology of Central Park


Box 30 Folder 10 Central Park - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From the 79th Street Entrance on Central Park West to the 59th Street Entrance on Fifth Avenue"


Box 9 Folder 11 Clubland Tour - General (Hunter to the Met), 1960s, undated

Includes research on addresses and residents, brochure "East Sixties Property Owners Association"


Box 32 Folder 15 Clubland Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From Hunter College to the Metropolitan Club"


Box 9 Folder 12 Clubland Tour - Manuscript, undated

Tour subtitled: "From the Union Club at Park Avenue and 69th Street to the Metropolitan Club at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street"


Box 27 Folder 8 Clubland Tour - Miscellaneous, 1960s, undated


Box 9 Folder 13 Clubland Tour I - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Upper East Side historic districts, Union Club (including sample menu 1880), Harold Pratt House, Cosmopolitan Club, Knickerboxer Greys, City University of New York, Hunter College, Histadrut in Israel, Seventh Regiment of New York and Armory


Box 9 Folder 14 Clubland Tour I - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Lexington School for the Deaf, Louis Comfort Tiffany Museum of Contemporary Crafts


Box 9 Folder 15 Clubland Tour II - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on St. Vincent Ferrer's Church, China Institute, American Federation of Arts, Temple Emanu-El, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Roy Wilson Howard, The Asia Society, Near East Foundation, New York Academy of Sciences, the Colony Club for women (with details on the Sabbatical Club: seven women who met seven men for dinner, seven times a year), Browning School for Boys, Cos Club


Box 10 Folder 1 Clubland Tour II - Secondary, 1960s, undated


Box 30 Folder 7 Clubland Tour - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From the Union Club at Park Avenue and 69th Street to the Metropolitan Club at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street"


Box 10 Folder 3 Columbia University - 117-149, 1960s, undated

1 photo


Box 10 Folder 4 Columbia University - 65-117, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Columbia endowments, libraries, UPenn Financial Reports, Yale Treasury Reports and graduate programs


Box 10 Folder 5 Columbia University - 68, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Heins & La Farge, correspondence Robert Harron (Assistant to the President)


Box 10 Folder 2 Columbia University - 7 - Cathedral of St John, 1950, 1960s, undated

Includes books:The Raphael Cartoons, published for the V&A, 1950,A Guide to the Cathedral,The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, comparative statistics on other cathedrals, correspondence Rev. Bruce M. Williams (Cathedral), J.B.B (Bailey?), research on William Appleton Potter, Van Brunt on Amiens Cathedral


Box 10 Folder 6 Columbia University - General Material, 1960s, undated

Various guides to Morningside Heights


Box 32 Folder 21 Columbia University - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"Tour 1: From the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to Grant's Tomb via the campus of Columbia University," "Tour 2: A Visit to Avery Library and Low Library," "Tour 3: Upper Broadway- Clerics & Scholars"


Box 10 Folder 7 Columbia University - Introduction, 1960s, undated

Includes research on St. Luke's Hospital, Church of Notre Dame, correspondence Phoebe Wadsworth (Home for Old Men and Aged Couples), Reverend Monsignor Daniel J. Donovan (Church of Notre Dame)


Box 10 Folder 8 Columbia University - Jewish Theological, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Torah in America, United Synagogue of America and The Jewish Museum


Box 10 Folder 9 Columbia University - Morningside Heights, undated

Tour subtitled: "From the Cathedral of St John the Divine to Grant's Tomb, via Columbia University"


Oversize Box 1 Folder 4 Columbia University - Photo - South Court Fountain, undated

From McKim, Mead & White Collection


Box 10 Folder 10 Columbia University - Planning, 1970

Includes report published by I.M. Pei and Partners, along with handwritten note from K. Lehn


Box 10 Folder 11 Columbia University - Riverside Park, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Grant's Tomb, Columbia International Student House, Riverside Church, correspondence Jesse Lyons, Robert Gibbs (Riverside Church), 4 photos


Box 32 Folder 19 Harlem - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From Hamilton Grange to St. Philip's Church"


Box 10 Folder 12 Lenox Hill Tour - General (St. Jean Baptiste to Frick), 1960s, undated

Includes notes on Edith Wharton's ancestry, hand drawn map of the East 70s tour, 1 photo


Box 32 Folder 16 Lenox Hill Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From St. Jean Baptiste to the Frick Gallery"


Box 10 Folder 13 Lenox Hill Tour - Miscellaneous (St. Jean Baptiste to Frick), 1960s, undated

Note inside: "pertinent to the text but not indexed," includes information on Loyola, De Tesse Room, copy of plan "Dwelling for N.L. McCready"


Box 10 Folder 14 Lenox Hill Tour - White Allom, Frick, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence G.W. Whale (White Allom Ltd.), 4 photos


Box 10 Folder 15 Lenox Hill Tour I - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Rev. Adrian Hebert (Church of St Jean Baptiste), 'Robbie' Robert Robbins (re French Canadian church of St Jean Baptiste), Mary D. Fewlass (Lenox Hill Hospital), Montague White (Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church), research on the German Hospital, Thomas Fortune Ryan, St Ignatius, Lenox Hill Hospital, Harkness, Hewitt School, Pulitzer, Alfred Chester Beatty, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, issues ofNew York Historical Society Quarterly(1962)


Box 10 Folder 16 Lenox Hill Tour I - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Alan Burnham (to 'Joan' Mrs Henry Hope Reed), James W. Wooster (The Commonwealth Fund), Montague White (Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church), plan of Harkness Ballet Center


Box 10 Folder 17 Lenox Hill Tour II - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on residents and addresses in E 70s, on Stillman, Kimball, Axel Werner Gren, Hoe, St James Church, David Sarnoff, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, the 20th Century Fund, Henry George School of Social Science


Box 10 Folder 18 Lenox Hill Tour II - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes booklet: "Paintings at the Frick Collection," contact sheet for members of the English Speaking Union of New York


Box 30 Folder 8 Lenox Hill Tour - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From the Church of St. Jean Baptiste to the Frick Collection"


Box 11 Folder 1 Lincoln Center I, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence John D. Rockefeller 3rd, George Hopper Fitch (Municipal Arts Society)


Box 11 Folder 2 Lincoln Center II (Philharmonic Hall), 1960s, undated

Includes transcript of CBS News Special on "Henry Moore: Man of Form" (1965)


Box 11 Folder 3 Lincoln Center III (Chief Sources), 1960s, undated

Includes research on Vivian Beaumont Allen, Academy of Music Philadelphia


Box 32 Folder 20 Lincoln Center, The West Side - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"Tour 1: From the Museum of Natural History to Lincoln Center," "Tour 2: Lincoln Center- The Elegant West Side," "Outline History of The American Museum of Natural History,"


Box 33 Folder 8 Lincoln Center, The West Side - Research, 1959-1971

Includes newspaper and magazine clippings, correspondence Nancy D. Newcomb, and brochures from the American Museum of Natural History


Box 31 Folder 3 Morningside Heights - Tour Draft [1 of 2], 1960s, undated

"From the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to Grant's Tomb via the campus of Columbia University"


Box 31 Folder 4 Morningside Heights - Tour Draft [2 of 2], 1960s, undated

"From the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to Grant's Tomb via the campus of Columbia University"


Box 32 Folder 17 Museum of the City of New York - Guide Notes, 1960s

"For the William Starr Miller Residence to the Museum of the City of New York"


Box 11 Folder 4 Museum of the City of New York I - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Park Avenue real estate history, Joseph Freedlander, Marine Museum, James Marion Sims, Patrick Henry School, Pine Street, Mount Sinai, New York City Housing Authority, correspondence Hardinge Scholle (Decatur House), August Heckscher (Twentieth Century Fund), book by Clarence SeniorThe Puerto Ricans: Strangers, then Neighbors


Box 11 Folder 5 Museum of the City of New York I - Secondary [1 of 2], 1960s, undated

Original folder subtitled: "Numbered according to pages in the revised manuscript," correspondence Mr Delano, research on Ogden Codman Jr., book:The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinleywith Reed note: "terrible poem on MCNY," 3 photos, 1 negative


Box 11 Folder 6 Museum of the City of New York I - Secondary [2 of 2], 1960s, undated

Original folder subtitled: "Numbered according to pages in the revised manuscript," correspondence Mr Delano, research on Ogden Codman Jr., book:The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinleywith Reed note: "terrible poem on MCNY," 3 photos, 1 negative


Box 11 Folder 7 Museum of the City of New York II - Primary, 1950s-60s, undated

Original folder subtitled: "Numbered according to unrevised manuscript," correspondence Vera M Seiger (New York Medicine), Martin R. Steinberg (Mount Sinai Hospital), David McKibbin (Library of the Boston Athenaeum), Pierre Brodin (Lycee Francais), John Hammond, research on New York Medicine, Academy of Medicine (including postcards), National Audubon Society, Billy Rose


Box 11 Folder 8 Museum of the City of New York II - Secondary, 1960s, undated


Box 11 Folder 9 Museum of the City of New York III - Primary [1 of 2], 1950s-60s, undated

Includes research on the Ruppert family, Lola Montez, YMHA, 92nd street Y, J.F.Dulles, the Dalton School, The Spence School, Andrew Carnegie, Columbia School of Social Work, Hammond House and Hammond family, Otto Kahn, correspondence Dr. Wolfe (Brick Presbyterian Church), John Boogaerts, Barbara Colbron (The Spence School), Mother B. Brennan (Convent of the Sacred Heart)


Box 11 Folder 10 Museum of the City of New York III - Primary [2 of 2], 1950s-60s, undated

Includes research on the Ruppert family, Lola Montez, YMHA, 92nd street Y, J.F.Dulles, the Dalton School, The Spence School, Andrew Carnegie, Columbia School of Social Work, Hammond House and Hammond family, Otto Kahn, correspondence Dr. Wolfe (Brick Presbyterian Church), John Boogaerts, Barbara Colbron (The Spence School), Mother B. Brennan (Convent of the Sacred Heart)


Box 11 Folder 11 Museum of the City of New York III - Secondary, 1960s, undated


Box 11 Folder 12 Museum of the City of New York IV - Primary, 1950s-60s, undated

Includes research on Freida Schiff and Felix Warburg, The Jewish Museum, Church of the Heavenly Rest, National Academy of Design, National Academy School for Fine Art, the Guggenheim museum and family, Frank Lloyd Wright, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, correspondence Teresa Goldblatt (Jewish Museum), Van Sinderen Lindsley (Church of the Heavenly Rest), David D. Hume (Saint David's School)


Box 11 Folder 13 Museum of the City of New York IV - Secondary, 1960s, undated

includes research on Nightingale Bamford School, Cornelius Vanderbilt family tree


Box 11 Folder 14 Museum of the City of New York V - Appendix (Gracie Mansion), 1960s, undated


Box 31 Folder 1 Museum of the City of New York - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From the Museum of the City of New York to the Yivo Institute of Jewish Research via Fifth Avenue"


Box 32 Folder 18 Upper East Side - Tours and Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"Tour 1: From the Pyne-Davison Row at Park Avenue and 68th Street to the Duke Mansion at 1 East 78th Street," "Tour 2: Fifth Avenue - From the Vanderbilt Gate to the Rovensky Mansion," "Tour 3: Upper Fifth Avenue," "Tour 4: The Town House and the Private Palace,"


Box 31 Folder 2 West Side - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From the American Museum of Natural History to Lincoln Center"


Box 32 Folder 13 Yorkville - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From St. Ignatius Church to St. Jean Baptiste"


Box 11 Folder 15 Yorkville I - Primary (up to Metropolitan Museum), 1960s, undated

Includes research on St. Ignatius, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Regis High, St. Jean Baptiste, Loyola High School, Reginald de Koven, Marymount School, E 86th St, Goethe House, the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, correspondence Rev. McCusker (Regis High School), Dr Hampton Adams/Lucille Bright (Park Avenue Christian Church), Julius Schatz (American Jewish Congress)


Box 11 Folder 16 Yorkville I - Secondary, 1960s, undated


Box 12 Folder 1 Yorkville I, II, III - Miscellaneous, 1960s, undated

Includes research on English Speaking Union, W.S. Cook, John Dennis Ryan, Henry Hudleton Rogers, correspondence Robert Clancy (Henry George School of Social Science)


Box 12 Folder 2 Yorkville II - Primary, 1960s, undated

Original folder subtitled: "Primary information on the Metropolitan Museum of Art"


Box 12 Folder 3 Yorkville II - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Metropolitan Museum of Art


Box 12 Folder 4 Yorkville III - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Douglas L. Elliman (with details on 998 Fifth Avenue), Irving Buchalter (Young Men's Philanthropic League), Elder Daniel L. Worthington (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), Clemencia Kessler (NYU Institute of Fine Arts), research on St. Ignatius, Murray Guggenheim, American Irish Historical Society, Woolworth, E 79th Street, IRE headquarters, Brokaw mansion, Rudolph Steiner School, Duveen, Unitarian Church of All Souls, Jewish Labor Bund, Duke House


Box 12 Folder 5 Yorkville III - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Chateau de Chenonceau, Rudolf Steiner School, All Souls Unitarian, Junior League of New York, report "Biennial National Convention of the American Jewish Congress, 1964," issues ofPerspectives,The JL Observer,Technion Review, course offerings NYU Institute of Fine Arts 1960s


Box 30 Folder 9 Yorkville - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola to the James Buchanan Duke Mansion"


Subseries 2: Mid-Manhattan (Houston to 59th)


Box 6 Folder 7 Astors - Mrs Astor's Fifth Avenue Tour - General, 1960s, undated

Includes tour text and drafts, 2 photos


Box 32 Folder 6 Astors - Mrs Astor's Fifth Avenue - Guide Notes, 1960s- 1970s

"From Herald Square to the New York Public Library"


Box 6 Folder 8 Astors - Mrs Astor's Fifth Avenue - Primary II, 1960s, undated

Includes research on office of the Post Master, Mrs Astor's Fifth Avenue, her dinners and balls, the Waldorf Astoria, Sloanes, Lord and Taylor, correspondence John A. Bell (Church of the Incarnation)


Box 6 Folder 9 Astors - Mrs Astor's Fifth Avenue - Primary II - Resources, 1957, undated

Includes research on Pierpoint Morgan Library, The New Church (Swedenborgian), Yeshiva University, Stern College, book by Conrad Hilton,Be My Guest, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1957, 288 pages, with note: 'Waldorf Astoria, pg 79-86'


Box 33 Folder 14 Astors - Mrs Astor's Fifth Avenue - Research, 1960s-1976

Includes notecards, typed notes, and clippings


Box 29 Folder 9 Astors - Mrs Astor's Fifth Avenue - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From Pennsylvania Station to the NYPL via Murray Hill and the Morgan Library"


Box 6 Folder 6 Astors - The World of the Astors Tour, 1960s, undated

Tour subtitled: "From St Mark's In-the-Bouwerie to Grace Church via St Patrick's Old Cathedral"


Box 9 Folder 10 Carnegie Hall, 1960s, undated

Includes research on West Side, Columbus Circle, Church of St Paul the Apostle, John Quinn


Box 6 Folder 10 Chelsea, 1960s, undated

Includes research on piers, development, St. Peter's Church, St. Vincent de Paul, Fisk, Guardian Angel Church, General Theological Seminary, Chelsea Square, correspondence Gladys Faber Grant (about Don Alonzo Cushman), engineer Irwin B. Margiloff (at 457 W 22nd)


Box 28 Folder 3 Chelsea - Clement Clarke Moore, 1960s, undated


Box 32 Folder 4 Chelsea Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour: Brick And Brownstone on the Hudson Shore," "Tour: The New York of Clement Clarke Moore"


Box 29 Folder 6 Chelsea Tour - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"The New York of Clement Clarke Moore"


Box 6 Folder 11 Cooper Union I, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Peter Stuyvesant, St. Mark's in the Bowery, Nicholas Fish, 3rd Avenue, correspondence Reverend Richard E. McEvoy (St. Mark's Church), Frank Wuttge (on the Locust Point Epic), hardback150 Years Service to American Health: Schieffelin


Box 6 Folder 12 Cooper Union Ia - The Museum, 1960s, undated

Contains extensive correspondence on saving the Cooper Union Museum: Eleanor Sachs, Colin Eisler, Whitney North Seymour, H.F. Du Pont, Vera D. Hahn, Victor Weybright (New American Library), Hall Winslow, Philip Randall, Russell Lynes (Harper's), August 'Augie' Heckscher, Roland L. Redmond, Frederick B. Adams Jr, Albert I. Edelman, Richard P. Wunder, 4 photos


Box 6 Folder 13 Cooper Union Ib - The Museum, 1960s, undated

Includes bound texts: "Exchange of Correspondence between the Committee and the Trustees of Cooper Union," "Summary Catalogue of Drawings by Identified Italian Architects in The Cooper Union Museum 1964," "Peter Cooper & the Wrought Iron Beam" by Esmond Shaw, "Recent Acquisitions by the Museum 1964"


Box 6 Folder 14 Cooper Union II - General 1, 1956, undated

Includes research on 21 Stuyvesant Street, the Ghost of Astor Library, 26 Bond Street, Stuyvesant Estate


Box 6 Folder 15 Cooper Union II - General 2, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Union Club, Astor Opera House, Metropolitan Hotel, text for "New York City of Art Tour 4," correspondence Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, Kenneth H. Dunshee (News from Home), Milton Forrest, registration list for Society of Architectural Historians, 2 photos and 3 strips of negatives


Box 6 Folder 16 Cooper Union II - Old Merchant's, 1950s-60s, undated

Includes research on Washington Irving, New York Public Library, United Hias Service (Jewish migration agency), booklet: "The Greek Revival In the US," 13 photos and 4 negatives


Box 6 Folder 17 Cooper Union III - World of the Astors, 1950s-60s, undated

Includes research on Puck Building, Jacob Riis, New York's Police, Black, Star & Gorham, Niblo's, Grace Church, correspondence Monsignor Tommaso (St. Patrick's Old Cathedral), Rev. Louis Pitt (Grace Church), 1 photo


Box 32 Folder 2 Cooper Union - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour: The World of the Astor's" "Tour: From St. Marl's in the Bouwerie to Grace Church"


Box 7 Folder 2 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts - General, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Paley Plaza, William S. Paley Foundation, Mason Land, Edith Wharton, 4 photos


Box 32 Folder 10 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour 1: From St. Patrick's Cathedral to the Hotel Plaza," "Tour 2: The Fifties - Fashionable Fifth Avenue"


Box 7 Folder 3 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts - Rockefeller/Rockland, 1960s, undated

Includes research on John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Rockefeller Land, MOMA


Box 7 Folder 4 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts - Tour Draft, undated


Box 7 Folder 5 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts - Tour Draft, undated

Includes tour text "Sutton Place," research on the Plaza, Sutton Place, Laws of New York, research fromThe History of American SculptureandKarl Bitter: Architectural Sculptor 1867-1915


Box 7 Folder 6 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts - Vanderbilt family, Mansions, etc, 1960s, undated

Includes Vanderbilt names and addresses, 4 photos


Box 7 Folder 7 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts I - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes St. Patrick's Day Parade program (1967), correspondence Paul Smith (American Craftsmen's Council), Reverend Joseph Flannelly (St. Patrick's Cathedral), Frederick Crowell, research on St. Patrick's Cathedral, Villard House, Rosenbach, Collier's, Cartier's, Mrs Ann Lohman alias Mme Restell (abortionist), on lobbies of Esso and Tishman buildings, 21 Club and speakeasies


Box 8 Folder 1 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts II - MOMA - Primary (also Rockefeller), 1960s, undated

Includes research on MoMA, 'Fifi', Fowler, Mr and Mrs John (Rockefeller?), 1 photo


Box 8 Folder 2 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts II - MOMA - Secondary, 1960s, undated


Box 7 Folder 8 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts III - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on St. Thomas Church, Whitney Museum, Museum of Primitive Art, The University Club, the Frick, US Steel Millionaires, W.H. Moore, Gotham Hotel, Hotel St. Regis, Lienau and ancestry notes for Mrs Colford Jones and Edith Wharton, Tiffany, Fifth Presbyterian, Durand-Ruel, Knoedler, Plaza Hotel, New Netherlands Hotel, Bonwit Teller, correspondence Mrs Marian C. Oliver O'Donnell (The Preservation Society of Newport County), the Chambre Syndicat Nationale des decorateurs et tapissier-decorateurs, France (on Maison Allard/Marble House), Frederick Keppel, text "The Story of Tiffany"


Box 7 Folder 9 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts III - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Nelson Hickman, Charlotte Rubinow (General Motors Corporation)


Box 30 Folder 6 Fifth Avenue of the Vanderbilts - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From St. Patrick's Cathedral to the Hotel Plaza, with excursions into the side streets"


Box 7 Folder 10 Gramercy Tour, 1960s, undated

Original folder title: "Tour #1 Gramercy 3," includes issues ofHistoric Preservation, research on The Players, Friends Meeting House, Washington Irving High School, John Bigelow, Con Ed


Box 30 Folder 3 Grand Central - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"A Brief Tour of Grand Central Terminal"


Box 7 Folder 11 Greenwich Village Tour, 1969, undated

Includes bound books from the Landmarks Preservation Commission: "Greenwich Village Historic District" volumes 1 and 2, and Reed tour "Greenwich Village and the City Planning Heritage of New York City"


Box 31 Folder 15 Greenwich Village Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour 1: The American Ward," "Tour 2:Sir Peter Warren's Greenwich," "Tour 3: From the Corner of Gay and Christopher Streets to the Jefferson Market Courthouse"


Box 33 Folder 4 Greenwich Village Tour - Research, 1961-1972

Includes clippings, references, notes, and correspondence Bernard Katz


Box 29 Folder 7 Greenwich Village Tour - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"Greenwich Village or the Old Ninth Ward"


Box 7 Folder 12 Henry James' Fifth Avenue - Tour, undated

Tour subtitled: "Henry James' Fifth Avenue - From Union Square to Washington Square via Fifth Avenue"


Box 7 Folder 13 Henry James' Fifth Avenue I - General, undated

Includes research on Village Arch, Union Square, Lower Fifth, Whorehouses, Winslow Homer, correspondence Edward F.L. Bruen, text by Reed "East of Washington Square: Sailors Snug Harbor, Henry James' Birthplace, the House of Commodore Vanderbilt, and old NYU"


Box 7 Folder 14 Henry James' Fifth Avenue II - General, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Clay Lancaster (on the Yerkes-Totten Japanese Palace Room), 1 photo


Box 7 Folder 15 Henry James' Fifth Avenue IIIa - NYU, 1958, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence William Spencer (NYU Office of Information)


Box 7 Folder 16 Henry James' Fifth Avenue IIIb - NYU, 1960s


Box 7 Folder 17 Henry James' Fifth Avenue IV - Union Square to Washington Square, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Sailors' Snug Harbor, Mrs Robert W. De Forest's "History of No. 7 Washington Square," R.M. Hunt's Studio Building for artists, the Washington Square Arch, correspondence Alan Burnham, Eli Wilentz (Eighth Street Bookshop), text: "A Brief Historical Review of the Houses on the North Side of Washington Square" by Robert C. Weinberg (architect)


Box 7 Folder 18 Henry James' New York - Union Square to Washington Square I, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Church of St. Francis Xavier, August Belmont (with menu dating from December 1887), Delmonicos


Box 7 Folder 19 Henry James' New York - Union Square to Washington Square II, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Arts Student League, New School, Salmagundi Club, Brevoort Ball, Church of the Ascension, correspondence Edgar Tafel (with hand drawn map), A. Henry Nordhausen, Thelma E. Bonneau (Earl G. Shneidman), book:Presbyterians Their History and Beliefsby Walter Lingle, book:The Constitution of the United Presbyterian Church 1960, 2 photos


Box 32 Folder 9 New York Public Library - Guide Notes, 1960s-1970s

Includes "Tour: From the New York Public Library to Rockefeller Center," "Tour of the New York Public Library"


Box 43 Folder 1 New York Public Library - Guide Notes, Classical America Tour, 1972

Contains guide notes for a tour of the New York Public Library presented by Classical America


Box 33 Folder 7 New York Public Library - Research, 1949-1980

Includes newspaper clippings, "One Hundreds Treasures: An Exhibition to mark the 100th Anniversary of the New York Public Library," and correspondence Rebecca Rochell


Box 29 Folder 10 New York Public Library - Tour Draft, 1960s-1970s

"From NYPL to Rockefeller Center via Fifth Avenue"


Box 32 Folder 1 NOHO Tour - Tour Draft, 1990s, undated


Box 8 Folder 3 Opera House, 1960s, undated

Includes material relating to Save the Met Foundation, correspondence Roy Anderson, Ada Rasario Cecere, brochure Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center


Box 8 Folder 4 Park Avenue - General, 1960s, undated


Box 8 Folder 5 Park Avenue I - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Grand Central Station, Jules-Alexis Coutan, Union Carbide building, Yale Club of New York City, Pan Am Building


Box 8 Folder 6 Park Avenue II - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Bankers Trust building, Waldorf Astoria, St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Avenue Methodist, Seagram building


Box 8 Folder 7 Park Avenue III - Primary, 1952, 1960s, undated

Includes research on The Brook, Central Synagogue, Henri Soule, Steinway, the Lighthouse, French Institute, Christ Church Methodist, correspondence Samuel Bloomingdale, Marshal Wershaw


Box 30 Folder 4 Park Avenue - Tour Draft [1 of 2], 1960s, undated

"From Grand Central Terminal to Christ Church Methodist via Glassville"


Box 32 Folder 12 Park Avenue - Tour Draft [2 of 2]

"Glassville: Park Avenue Tour"


Box 8 Folder 8 Park Avenue via Glassville - Secondary I, 1960s, undated

Includes 16 issues of "Superintendent's Window Club - Pan Am Building," a monthly 1-page newsletter on the construction of the building, from June 1961 to September 1962, correspondence Don Atran (J.P. Lohman), 7 photos


Box 8 Folder 9 Park Avenue via Glassville - Secondary II, 1960s, undated

Includes research on the Tisches, Lever House, Linden Hill Cemetery of Central Synagogue, Rabbi Sanford Seltzer, 4 photos


Box 8 Folder 10 Penn Station Tour, 1960s, undated

Includes issue ofThe American Architect(1910), correspondence AJ (?) Cassall, papers from Action Group for Better Architecture in New York and their efforts to save Penn Station, plans and drawings, 24 photos


Box 32 Folder 7 Penn Station Tour - Guide Notes, 1962


Box 33 Folder 5 Rockefeller Center - Research, 1955-1966

Includes, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes on the art program at Rockefeller Center, "A Digest of Facts about Rockefeller Center," and photographs (2 photo)


Box 8 Folder 11 The Squares - Appellate Court, 1956, undated

Includes correspondence Deane Keller (Yale Department of Design), research on Blashfield, Appellate Court, Mowbray


Box 8 Folder 12 The Squares - General, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Helen Joy Trowbridge (born 1882 on E 31st), text: "Memorial: of Samuel B. Ruggles on the social and fiscal importance of open squares in the city of New York," receipt of royalties from Mexican publisher (?) for Reed and Tunnard


Box 32 Folder 5 The Squares - Guide Notes, 1960s- 1970s

"From the Little Church Around the Corner to Irving Place"


Box 33 Folder 15 The Squares - Research, 1970s, undated

Includes magazine clipping and types notes


Box 29 Folder 8 The Squares - Tour Draft, 1970s, undated

"The 'Reservation' of Edith Wharton: From the Little Church Around the Corner to Irving Place, via Madison Square, Gramercy Park and Stuyvesant Square"


Box 8 Folder 13 The Squares - Written Material, Manuscripts, etc, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence from the Title Guarantee Company regarding property ownership


Box 8 Folder 14 The Squares #1, 1960s, undated

Includes information on Madison Square, Gramercy Square, Church of the Transfiguration, NY Life Insurance Company, underground parking garage in Madison Square Park, typed excerpts from Willa Cather'sMy Mortal Enemyand from Henry James'The Conquest of London


Box 8 Folder 15 The Squares #2, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Metropolitan Tower, Metropolitan Life, Edith Wharton (including genealogy), Ford Madox Ford, Flatiron Building, Peter Goelet, Teddy Roosevelt, 1 photo


Box 32 Folder 8 Times Square - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour 1: The Story of the American Theatre in this Century," "Tour 2: From the Library to the Time & Life Building," "Tour 3: Theatre in New York"


Box 9 Folder 4 Times Square - Theatre District, 1960s, undated

Includes research on specific theatres and addresses, Perils of Pearl Street, Jack Barryman


Box 9 Folder 1 Times Square - Tour Drafts and Manuscript, undated


Box 9 Folder 2 Times Square I - Introduction, 1961, undated


Box 9 Folder 3 Times Square I - Introduction II, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Robert W. Dowling, theatres, Mordecai Gorlik, Broadway movie palaces, lobster palaces


Box 30 Folder 2 Times Square - Notes, 1960s-1970s

"Theatre District"


Box 33 Folder 6 Times Square - Research, 1960s-1975

Includes newspaper clippings, notes, and brochure from the Lambs clubhouse


Box 30 Folder 1 Times Square - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"Theatre District"


Box 31 Folder 14 Tompkins Square - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes notes for the Christodora House, Tompkins Square Park, and "Tour: From New York Marble Cemetery to Tompkins Square"


Box 9 Folder 5 United Nations - General & Introductory, 1960s, undated

Includes hardcover:New York's Turtle Bay - Old and Newby Edmund T. Delaney (Barre, Mass., Barre Publishers, 1965) with Reed mentioned in the thanks


Box 32 Folder 11 United Nations - Guide Notes, 1960s-1980s

" Tour 1: The World Capitol on the East River," "Tour 2: Sutton & Beekman Place"


Box 9 Folder 6 United Nations - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes exhibition catalogue: "Cosden Inc - An Exhibition of a Year's Work 1936-37," brochure: "The Radcliffe Club of NY presents a tour of Distinguished Art Collections for the Benefit of the Scholarship Fund December 5, 1964 - Mrs Albert Lasker, 29 Beekman Place," listing works by Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh, Utrillo, Renoir, Dali, Modigliani among others, research on Ford Foundation program, the Institute of International Education


Box 9 Folder 7 United Nations I - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence H.F. Du Pont, research on Colonial Dames of America on Abigail Adams Smith House, Queensboro Bridge, Thomas Wolfe, Beekman Place, issues ofTurtle Bay Gazette(1964)


Box 9 Folder 8 United Nations II - Architecture of the Complex, 1940s-50s, undated

Includes articles from sources likeRIBA JournalandAIA Journal


Box 9 Folder 9 United Nations III - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on UN Church Center, the News Building on E 42nd, Bowery Savings Bank, issues of newsletterTudor City View


Box 30 Folder 5 United Nations - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"The World Capitol on the East River: From the Abigail Adams Smith House to Grand Central Terminal via Sutton Place and the UN"


Box 32 Folder 3 Washington Square - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"The World of Henry James"


Subseries 3: Downtown Manhattan (below Houston)


Box 4 Folder 7 Brooklyn Bridge Tour - General, 1960s, undated


Box 31 Folder 10 Brooklyn Bridge Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour 1: From Our Lady of Victory to Park Row," "Tour 2: City Hall, via Brooklyn Bridge,"


Box 4 Folder 6 Brooklyn Bridge Tour - Manuscript & Drafts [1 of 2], undated


Box 4 Folder 12 Brooklyn Bridge Tour - Manuscript & Drafts [2 of 2], undated


Box 4 Folder 8 Brooklyn Bridge Tour I - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Our Lady of Victory Church, Chase Manhattan Bank, Federal Reserve, Jefferson in New York, Firefighting Museum and portraits at the New York Chamber of Commerce


Box 4 Folder 9 Brooklyn Bridge Tour I & II - Secondary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Ray Brown, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Wesley's Chapel/John Street Church, David Rockefeller


Box 4 Folder 10 Brooklyn Bridge Tour II - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Fanny Jones, research on New York Clearing House, South Street Seaport Museum, Fulton Fish Market


Box 4 Folder 11 Brooklyn Bridge Tour III - Primary, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Park Row, Newspaper Row, Pace College


Box 29 Folder 3 Brooklyn Bridge - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From Pine Street to Park Row, via Brooklyn Bridge"


Box 4 Folder 13 Civic Center - City Hall, 1960s, undated

Includes research on City Hall, Municipal Art Society, NYC Art Commission, 2 photos


Box 4 Folder 14 Civic Center - Developments, 1960s, undated


Box 4 Folder 15 Civic Center - Lower Manhattan Expressway, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Paul W. Douglas, Nathan R. Ginsburg (Architects Council)


Box 4 Folder 16 Civic Center I - General, undated


Box 4 Folder 17 Civic Center II - General, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence Father Gerard LaMountain (Most Holy Crucifix Church), Father Frank Massarone (Old St Patrick's Cathedral), Mrs John M. Gilchrist, Alan Burnham, research on Pike's Opera House, Metropolitan Hotel, dry goods district, Lispenard's Meadows, Electric Light Lab


Box 31 Folder 12 Civic Center - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From Police Headquarters to City Hall"


Box 4 Folder 18 Civic Center Tour, 1960s, undated

Includes research on New York City Police, Lord & Taylor, Griffith Thomas, Five Points


Box 29 Folder 5 Civic Center - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From Police Headquarters to City Hall via Civil War Broadway"


Box 31 Folder 11 George Washington's New York - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From Wall and Front Streets to the Battery"


Box 5 Folder 1 Lower Broadway - Conveyances, undated

Includes ancestry notes on Van Cortlandt family, lists of 'conveyances' of properties sold around lower Broadway in 1600s and 1700s


Box 5 Folder 2 Lower Broadway - Cunard Building, 1920s, 1960s, undated

Includes text on Cunard building by Reed


Box 5 Folder 3 Lower Broadway - General, 1960s, undated

5 photos


Box 31 Folder 9 Lower Broadway - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From Bowling Green to Saint Paul's Chapel"


Box 5 Folder 4 Lower Broadway - Liberty Tower, 1980s

Includes correspondence Lenore Norman (Landmarks Preservation Commission)


Box 5 Folder 5 Lower Broadway - World Trade Center, 1960s, undated

Includes statement on behalf of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association by Charles Merritt, relating to the Bennett Building, Nassau Street


Box 5 Folder 6 Lower Broadway Tour, 1960


Box 29 Folder 2 Lower Broadway Tour - Tour Draft, 1970s, undated

"From Bowling Green Lane to St. Paul's Chapel"


Box 5 Folder 7 Lower Broadway Via Sacra #1, 1959-60s

Includes correspondence Paul F. Hart (Port of New York), Robert Dill (Port of New York Custom Service), text by Reed: "The Reception Room of the Collector of the Port of New York," 1 photo


Box 5 Folder 8 Lower Broadway Via Sacra #2, 1960s

Includes correspondence Alfred MacIntosh, Ralph Walker, Voorhees Walker Smith & Smith, Robert Arnold, research on Trinity Church, St Paul's Chapel and Bell


Box 5 Folder 9 Lower East Side I - General, 1960s

Includes library slips (of research books?), research on Edward Mooney House, Tompkins Market, Irish immigration, Peter Stuyvesant's Pear Tree, text "The Evolution of Stuyvesant Village" by A.A. Rikeman (1899), correspondence Martin Uihlestein, Dr. Ernest Palen


Box 5 Folder 10 Lower East Side I - Maps and Tour, undated

Information on the Tompkins Square tour


Box 5 Folder 11 Lower East Side I - Tompkins Square, undated

Contains research on Marble Cemetery, Church of the Nativity and Holy Redeemer Church, correspondence with Henry P. Loewer (Minthorne-Marble Association)


Box 5 Folder 12 Lower East Side II - Tompkins Square, 1960s, undated

Includes research on St Brigid's Church, Dry Dock Savings Bank, Ottendorfer Library, St Nicholas Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church


Box 31 Folder 16 Soho Tour - Guide Notes, 1980s, undated

Includes tour text by Arthur Marks III, with thanks to Reed


Box 5 Folder 13 Wall Street Tour, 1950, 1969-75, undated


Box 5 Folder 14 Wall Street Tour - American Heritage, February 1966, 1966

Hardback with note 'Wall Street pages 99-102'


Box 5 Folder 15 Wall Street Tour - General I, 1960s, undated

Includes correspondence C.G. Michalis (re numbering on Wall Street), 3 photos and 1 strip negatives


Box 5 Folder 16 Wall Street Tour - General II, 1960s, undated

Includes extensive notes and information on George Washington and Wall Street, copy of "George Washington's Children's Walking Tour" and Reed text "Discover New York: Corner of Wall and Broad Streets"


Box 5 Folder 17 Wall Street Tour - General III / Planning, 1960s, undated

Contains information on Battery Park City development


Box 31 Folder 8 Wall Street Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour 1: From Wall Street to the Battery," "Tour 2: From Wall Street to the Battery," "Tour 3: From Federal Memorial Hall to the Battery," "Tour 4: The World of Wall Street"


Box 5 Folder 18 Wall Street Tour - Part I, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Federal Hall Memorial, Chase Manhattan Bank, Captain Kidd, Wall Street fire of 1835, correspondence David Rockefeller, 5 photos


Box 5 Folder 19 Wall Street Tour - Part II, 1960s, undated

Includes research on Fraunces Tavern, Seamen's Church Institute of New York, the Battery, Statue of Liberty, Governor's Island, correspondence Henry J Gabhard (?) (Church of Our Lady of the Rosary)


Box 33 Folder 3 Wall Street Tour - Research, 1960s, undated

Includes magazine clippings, references, notes


Box 29 Folder 1 Wall Street Tour - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From Wall Street to the Battery"


Box 6 Folder 2 Worth Street Tour - 1, undated

Includes tour text "Worth Street, Cast-Iron City," correspondence Elisabeth Flagler (Worth Street Area Association), research on architectural ironworks, Columbia College, Ralph Walker, Astor House, Italian Opera House, Juilliard, text "From the Long Distance Building to Saint Petrels Church"


Box 6 Folder 3 Worth Street Tour - 2, 1950s, 1962, undated

Includes draft of Worth Street tour, research on the 32 Ave of the Americas building, the 140 West Street Building, the CW & JT Moore & Co Store, 2 issues of theJourney of the Society of Architectural Historians


Box 6 Folder 4 Worth Street Tour - 3, 1952, undated

Includes issue ofJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians, correspondence Rev. Joseph G. McIntyrem (Saint Petrels Church), text on "No 5: The Long Distance Building to Saint Petrels Church," information on St John's Park


Box 6 Folder 5 Worth Street Tour - 4, 1950s-60s, undated

Includes issueJournal of Society of Architectural Historiansand theNew York Historical Society Quarterly,research on St Peter's, Trumbull, Glass, Holland Tunnel, 2 photos


Box 6 Folder 1 Worth Street Tour - General, 1970s, undated

Includes research on Lower Broadway/Barnum, fromThe Architecture of Humanism, on the painted decorations at the New York Supreme Court, includes The Victorian Society of America's "A Walking Tour of Manhattan Cast Iron Architecture"


Box 31 Folder 13 Worth Street Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From the Long Lines Building to St. Peter's Church, via Broadway and Worth Street"


Box 29 Folder 4 Worth Street Tour - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

"From the Long Lines Building to St. Peter's Church, via Broadway and Worth Street"


Subseries 4: Beyond Manhattan and General


Box 32 Folder 22 Bronx - Woodlawn Cemetery - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes photographs, Reed article "A Woodlawn Pilgrimage," "Woodlawn Cemetery: Homage to Herman Melville," "Woodlawn- Guide Notes


Box 33 Folder 10 Bronx - Woodlawn Cemetery - Research, 1960s

Includes brochures from Woodlawn Cemetery


Box 32 Folder 26 Brooklyn - Bedford Stuyvesant - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"Before of Bedford Stuyvesant: 300 Years of Change"


Box 32 Folder 23 Brooklyn - Brooklyn Heights - Guide Notes, 1957-1960s

"Tour 1: Brooklyn Heights," "Tour 2: Brooklyn Heights," "Tour 3: Brooklyn Heights,"


Box 33 Folder 11 Brooklyn - Brooklyn Heights - Research, 1927-1960s

Includes publication on Brooklyn Heights, typed notes, and background for Brooklyn Heights tour


Box 31 Folder 5 Brooklyn - Brooklyn Heights - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated

Includes text on Brooklyn Trust and Brooklyn Heights Tour "From Borough Hall to the Plymouth Church"


Box 12 Folder 6 Brooklyn - Prospect Park Tour, undated

Tour subtitled: "From Grand Army Plaza to Garden Terrace via Swan Boat Lake"


Box 32 Folder 25 Brooklyn - Prospect Park Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

"From Grand Army Plaza to Garden Terrace," "Outline for Handbook of Prospect Park," "Trees of Prospect Park, Brooklyn (Excursion # 1-4),"


Box 33 Folder 12 Brooklyn - Prospect Park Tour - Research, 1970s-1980s

Includes maps, typed notes, photograph, Historic Prospect Park" by Donald E. Simon, and "The Making of Prospect Park" by M.M. Graff


Box 31 Folder 6 Brooklyn - Prospect Park Tour - Tour Draft, 1960s, undated


Box 33 Folder 2 Correspondence, 1960-1965

Includes correspondence related to New York walking tours


Box 32 Folder 27 Governor's Island - Guide Notes, 1965


Box 27 Folder 9 Governor's Island - Guide Notes, 1965


Box 31 Folder 7 Manhattan Tour - Guide Notes, 1960s, undated

Includes "Tour 1: Around Manhattan," "Tour 2: Lower Manhattan and Walking Tour of Midtown," "Tour 3: Historic Houses and House Museums," "Tour 4: Old New York"


Box 27 Folder 10 Miscellaneous, 1960s, undated

Includes text by Reed: "A Brief History of the Walking Tours of the Museum of New York City" and "Museum of the City of New York Sunday Walking Tours: A Brief Outline of Architectural Styles"


Box 32 Folder 28 Miscellaneous, 1926-1973

Includes "Eras of Architectural Styles," "Notes for Guides," "Noteworthy Decorative Details," "Reading List I," "Wall Street: A Resource," "Washington Square to Union Square," "Gracie Mansion,"


Box 33 Folder 9 New York City Churches, 1959-1960s

Includes correspondence M.W. Del Gaudio


Box 12 Folder 8 Notes for Guides, 1961, undated


Box 12 Folder 9 Notices and Announcements [1 of 2], 1957, 1974, 1990s, undated

Includes Greensward envelope with photograph of Reed and walking tour group (1994)


Box 33 Folder 1 Notices and Announcements [2 of 2], 1961-2001

Includes tour promotional materials


Box 12 Folder 7 Queens - Hunter's Point Tour, 1963, undated

Includes correspondence Codman Hislop (Union College)


Box 12 Folder 10 Reed Writings On Walking Tours, 1960s, undated


Box 32 Folder 24 Staten Island - Guide Notes, 1958-1979

"Northern and Eastern Staten Island: From St. George to Sailors' Snug Harbor,"


Box 33 Folder 13 Staten Island - Research, 1957-1968

Includes newspaper clippings, typed notes, annotations for Staten Island walking tour photograph, and publication on Alice Austen House (1968)