Virtual Tour – Madison Avenue: High Fashion and Historic Preservation, Monday, March 8

Join AIANY and the Madison Avenue BID as we discover the history behind Madison Avenue’s landmark buildings and explore how high-fashion retail has been incorporated into the district to create a world-famous shopping destination. The area has evolved from brownstones built in the 1870s and 1880s, to lavish Beaux Arts townhouses by celebrated architects such as McKim, Mead & White, Carrère & Hastings, and Ernest Flagg, to luxury apartment buildings designed by Rosario Candela, Emery Roth, and others. Since early in the twentieth century, many of those historic residential buildings have been transformed to accommodate prestigious stores.

The tour will examine architecture from 1870 to the present on and near Madison in the East 60s and 70s, an area almost entirely within the Upper East Side Historic District, and consider how landmark designation has preserved the avenue’s distinctive character.

AIANY Guide: John Arbuckle, Assoc. AIA
Next virtual tour date is Monday, March 8, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM.

AIANY Members: Free
General Public: $10
Student with Valid .edu Email Address: Free

To register, please click here.