Architecture and Changing Lifestyles in Yorkville: A Virtual Tour


Why would a block of 19th-century working-class tenements near the East River become home to members of the social register and the offices of the Paris Review? How did white brick capture the ideals of post-war middle-class apartment dwellers? What does Yorkville’s relationship to the East River have to do with the development of its residential architecture? On this virtual tour of Yorkville, Architectural Historian Francis Morrone will trace different periods of neighborhood history through the growth and development of Yorkville’s residential architectural, focusing on such forms as the tenement, the apartment house, the Black and Whites of East 72nd Street, and the post-war high rise. Throughout, Morrone will explore how changing architectural styles express more than a century of changing lifestyles in Yorkville.


Thursday, August 27

6:30 p.m.

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Francis Morrone Architectural Historian

Francis Morrone is an architectural historian and the author of eleven books including Guide to New York City Urban Landscapes; The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; and architectural guidebooks to Philadelphia and Brooklyn. As a historic preservation consultant, he has written countless building histories and neighborhood surveys in New York and beyond. He worked as an art and architecture critic for the New York Sun. Collectively, his work represents one of the most comprehensive bodies of research on the built history of New York City. He is the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, the Landmarks Lion Award of the Historic Districts Council, NYU's Excellence in Teaching Award, and was named by Travel and Leisure Magazine “one of the 13 best tour guides in the world.”


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