Series II. Subject files, 1831–2004, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Material on Gramercy Park proper, the surrounding neighborhood, its architecture, notable residents, and businesses.
Arrangement
Filed chronologically.
Ruggles documents, 1831, 1974, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Early deeds and correspondence of lawyer and politician Samuel B. Ruggles (1799–1881), the landholder who created Gramercy Park.
Trustees of Gramercy Park [2 folders], circa 1870–1966, inclusive
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Bills, receipts, and correspondence concerning the maintenance of and access to Gramercy Park.
Newspaper clippings [2 folders], 1881–1937, undated, inclusive
Leopold Eidlitz (1823–1908), [1881–1976], inclusive
Scope and Contents
Architect Leopold Eidlitz, with his partner Charles Otto Blesch, designed St. George's Episcopal Church (1846–1849) on Stuyvesant Square.
Cyrus W. Field (1819–1892), [1885], inclusive
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Photocopy of invitation from Cyrus W. Field to Henry L. Grant (1820–1894) to attend the eightieth birthday of Field's brother, David Dudley Field (1805–1894). The Field brothers lived on the site of No. 1 Lexington Avenue at the corner of Gramercy Park North.
John B. Pine's The Story of Gramercy Park, 1831–1921, 1919–1921, inclusive
Scope and Contents
An advertisement and promotional material for John B. Pine's book, The Story of Gramercy Park, 1831–1921 (for a copy, see Box 8, Folder 24). Includes a 1919 letter from Alexander Duane to Pine informing him that he lacks a print or description of his great-great-grandfather's county seat on Gramercy Park.
Window gardens / flower boxes, 1919–1925, inclusive
Gramercy Park Hotel (52 Gramercy Park North), 1925–1958, inclusive
Gramercy Park reminiscences, etc., circa 1929–1996, undated, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Contains photocopies of
• Recollections of Mrs. John B. Pine (Caroline Pryor), 24–25 Gramercy Park, New York City" (circa 1929)
• Gramercy Park Centenary Celebration (1931)
• Edith Wharton, "A Little Girl's New York," Harper's (March 1938)
• Henry Hope Reed Jr., "Notes on Gramercy Park and its Periphery Prepared on the Occasion of the 74th Annual Meeting of the Municipal Art Society" (circa 1967)
• Stephen Garmey, "Little-known Treasures on Irving Place" (November 1992)
• Stephen Garmey, Foreword to Gramercy: Its Architectural Surroundings (Gramercy Neighborhood Associates, Inc., 1996)
• Typescript "List of Illustrations" (undated)
• "The Organ of Calvary Episcopal Church" (undated)
Calendars [3 folders], 1947, 2000–2001, inclusive
Scope and Contents
• The Gramercy Park Calendar (1947)
• Gramercy Park: A New York Neighborhood (2000) [3 copies]
• Gramercy Gardens (2001) [2 copies]
MOVIETIME U.S.A., 1951 August 23
Scope and Contents
Letter to Raymond Walburn of Beverly Hills, California, from Ronald Regan, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, discussing MOVIETIME U.S.A., a nationwide promotional tour campaign of Hollywood personalities. It is unclear why this letter is in the present collection, unless Gramercy Park was one of the locations of a celebrity visit.
Gramercy Graphic information, circa 1953–1988, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Promotional material and some correspondence regarding the Gramercy Graphic. (For a run of this periodical, 1954–1967, see Box 10, Folders 1–14.)
Vintage pamphlets & invitations of neighborhood locations, etc., 1953–2004, inclusive
Scope and Contents
• Prince George Hotel (1953)
• New York City Police Academy (circa 1954–1965)
• Twenty-Third Street Association Membership Roster (1958)
• National Arts Club [3 items] (1964, 1974, undated)
• Church of the Epiphany, 375 Second Avenue [2 items] (1968, undated)
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace [2 items] (1982, undated)
• Peace Fountain (circa 1983)
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens [2 items] (1985, 1990)
• IFDA [International Furnishings and Design Association] (2004)
• An Evening With George Templeton Strong (undated)
• Autum Leaflet / Where to Dine / Where to Buy / Where to find needed Services (undated)
• Friends of Gramercy (undated)
• Parkside Hotel, 18 Gramercy Park South (undated)
• Stanford White's New York (undated)
• Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association (undated)
• Connelly's [restaurant menu] (undated
• Gramercy Park [restaurant menu] (undated)
Emory Lewis, "Gramercy Park Close-Up: A spring walking tour," CUE, 1964 April 25
Landmarks Preservation Commission, 1970, 1986, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the stable at 121 East 17th Street, and the H. Kauffman & Sons Saddlery Co. building at 139–141 East 24th Street, Manhattan, the latter since replaced by Baruch College.
STOP BIG MAC!, 1975 February 13, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Flier for "A Citizens' Meeting of Inquiry into McDonald's Move On Our Community," held in the Tiffany Room of the Gramercy Park Hotel.
Stephen Garmey's Gramercy Park: An Illustrated History of a New York Neighborhood, 1984–1986, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Promotional material for Stephen Garmey's book, Gramercy Park: An Illustrated History of a New York Neighborhood. (For a copy, see Box 8, Folder 10.)
Lampposts [2 folders], 1990–2006, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Documentations of efforts by Gramercy Neighborhood Associates to replace the area's modern lampposts with historic reproductions.
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962), 1998 July, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Ludwig Bemelmans, perhaps best remembered for creating the beloved children's book character "Madeline," was a longtime resident of Gramercy Park. He died in 1962 at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South).
Albinas Elskus (1926–2007), undated, inclusive
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Stained glass artist Elskus designed windows for the Roman Catholic Church of the Epiphany, 375 Second Avenue.