1922 Gramercy Park,New York Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower

Gramercy Park, between East 20th and East 21st Streets east of Park Avenue, New York, New York. View to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower
Title: [Gramercy Park, between East 20th and East 21st Streets east of Park Avenue, New York, New York. View to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company tower]
Related Names:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952 , lecturer
Date Created/Published: [ca. 1922]
Notes:
Site History. Park created in 1831 by Samuel B. Ruggels, managed by the Gramercy Park Association. Today: Park extant.
Possibly photographed by Charles I. Berg, architect and photographer, who was secretary of the Gramercy Park Association when the park won first prize for park planting and protection at the 1922 City Gardens Club of New York City photograph exhibition at the New York Camera Club.
Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens.'
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011. Building in background formerly identified as the Consolidated Gas Company tower.
Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company--Buildings--1920-1930.
Parks--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930.
Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930.
Gramercy Park (New York, N.Y.)--1920-1930.
Lantern slides--1920-1930.
Bookmark /2007685063/
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