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View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) Map of Central Park & Vicinity [390]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) Plaza Hotel and Residence designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh [378]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) Grand Army Plaza – Pulitzer Fountain [92]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) Pulitzer Fountain - Audrey Munson - Karl Bitter [133]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) Pulitzer Fountain - Isadore Konti [67]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) Pulitzer Fountain - Orazio Piccirilli [34]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens [234]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument - 'Ontario' Jumper Horse [114]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument - Life Bust of Sherman [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument - Georgia Pine Branch - 'Marching Through Georgia' [80]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) Sherry Netherland Hotel and Co-op [131]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) Metropolitan Club - John Pierpont Morgan protest [92]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Metropolitan Club [60]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Pierre Hotel & Residence [70]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) Pierre Hotel [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) Knickerbocker Club - August Belmont [57]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) Edwin J Berwind Home [74]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Temple Emanu-El [127]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) 107th Infantry Memorial sculpted by Karl Illava [205]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) 107th Infantry Memorial - WWI [116]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) 107th Infantry Memorial [80]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) The Arsenal designed by Martin E. Thompson [250]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) The Arsenal designed by Martin E. Thompson [76]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Central Park Zoo [57]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Central Park Zoo - Polar Bears [101]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Eagle by Frederick Roth [22]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Dancing Bear Statue by Frederick George Richard Roth [50]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Delacorte Clock gift of George T. Delacorte [238]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  30) Lehman Gate – Children's Zoo [47]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  31) Zoo – Lop Eared Rabbit [8]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  32) Zoo – Billy Goat [6]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  33) Central Park South [28]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  34) Lombard Lamp - Hamburg, Germany [90]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  35) The Pond [136]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  36) Path [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  37) Grand Army Plaza Buildings: Sherry Netherland [39]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  38) Simon Bolivar Monument by James Farnham [248]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  39) Simon Bolivar Monument by Sally James Farnham [241]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  40) Jose Marti Monument by Anna Hyatt Huntington [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  41) Jose Marti Monument [106]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  42) Jose de San Martin Equestrian Monument [287]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  43) Jose de San Martin Equestrian Monument [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  44) New York Athletic Club founded by Henry Buermeyer, John Babcock and William Curtis [139]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  45) Horse Carriages [44]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  46) Gainsborough Studios Buildng by Charles W Buckham [55]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  47) Gainsborough Studios [41]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  48) Time Warner Center designed by David Childs [116]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  49) Columbus Monument by Gaetano Russo [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  50) Columbus Monument - Carlo Barsotti [129]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  51) Columbus Monument by Gaetano Russo [239]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  52) Columbus Monument - 'Winged Youth' - 'Genius of Discovery' [52]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  53) Columbus Monument [42]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  54) Columbus Monument by Gaetano Russo [46]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  55) Columbus Monument - Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  56) Old Hunting Hartford Museum Building [125]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  57) Trump International Hotel and Tower [79]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  58) Gulf & Western Unisphere [129]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  59) Maine Monument by H. Van Buren Magonigle and Attilio Piccirilli [187]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  60) Maine Monument - 'Columbia Triumphant' - Audrey Munson [238]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  61) Maine Monument by H. Van Buren Magonigle and Attilio Piccirilli [93]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  62) Maine Monument by H. Van Buren Magonigle and Attilio Piccirilli [54]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  63) Maine Monument - 'The Post-Bellum Idea: Justice Receiving Back the Sword Entrusted to War.' [51]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  64) Maine Monument by H. Van Buren Magonigle and Attilio Piccirilli [62]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  65) New York Ethical Culture Society School [82]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  66) New York Ethical Culture Society by Robert Kohn [102]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  67) Holy Trinity Lutheran Church - Gerold Dieterlen WWI [134]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  68) Giuseppe Mazzini - 'Dio E Il Populo' - 'Pensiero Ed Azione' [199]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  69) 7th Regiment Memorial by John Quincy Adams Ward [89]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  70) 7th Regiment Memorial - actor James Steele MacKaye [128]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  71) Great Lawn or Sheep Meadow designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux [345]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  72) Eagles and Prey Sculpture by Christophe Fratin [140]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  73) Victor Herbert Bust by Edmund Thomas Quinn [86]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  74) Ludwig van Beethoven Bust [267]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  75) Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller bust by by C.L. Richter [87]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  76) Bethesda Fountain and Terrace - Greensward Plan [58]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  77) Bethesda Fountain and Terrace [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  78) Bethesda Fountain and Terrace designed by Calvert Vaux [46]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  79) Bethesda Fountain and Terrace - Fountain designed by Emma Stebbins [116]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  80) Bethesda Fountain and Terrace - 'Angel of the Waters' Fountain [122]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  81) Bethesda Fountain Angel [61]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  82) Bethesda Fountain and Terrace [76]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  83) Bethesda Fountain and Terrace [67]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  84) Naumburg Bandshell designed by William G. Tachau [196]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  85) Mall [215]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  86) Fitz-Greene Halleck Sculpture by James Wilson Alexander MacDonald [105]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  87) Sir Walter Scott Bronze Portrait [162]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  88) Robert Burns Statue by Sir John Steell [91]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  89) Robert Burns Statue [171]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  90) William Shakespeare Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward [186]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  91) William Shakespeare Statue [177]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  92) Christopher Columbus Statue [136]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  93) Christopher Columbus Statue [133]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  94) 'Indian Hunter' Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward [201]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  95) 'Indian Hunter' Statue [144]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  96) Balto the Sled Dog Statue by Frederick Roth [94]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  97) Balto the Sled Dog Statue by Frederick Roth [638]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  98) Balto the Sled Dog Statue by Frederick Roth [113]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  99) Richard Morris Hunt Memorial by Daniel Chester French [216]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  100) Richard Morris Hunt Memorial by Daniel Chester French [76]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  101) Richard Morris Hunt Memorial [68]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  102) Richard Morris Hunt Memorial [41]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  103) Frick Museum [34]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  104) Whitney Museum designed by by Marcel Breur [307]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  105) Whitney Museum [114]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  106) Samuel F. B. Morse statue by Byron M Pickett [172]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  107) Waldo Hutchins Bench by Corrado Novani and the Piccirilli Brothers [180]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  108) Waldo Hutchins Bench [28]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  109) The Pilgrim Statue by John Quincy Adams Ward [70]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  110) The Pilgrim Statue [101]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  111) Snow Babies by Victor Frish [42]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  112) Grand Settings [18]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  113) Mother Goose Sculpture by Frederick George Richard Roth [425]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  114) Mother Goose Sculpture by Frederick George Richard Roth [42]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  115) Mother Goose Sculpture [176]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  116) Mother Goose Sculpture [196]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  117) Mother Goose Sculpture [55]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  118) Conservatory Water [23]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  119) Conservatory Water & Model Boats [80]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  120) Hans Christian Anderson Sculpture by Georg John Lober [78]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  121) Hans Christian Anderson Sculpture [3906]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  122) Conservatory Water [24]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  123) Lewis Carroll – 'Alice in Wonderland' Sculpture [90]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  124) Lewis Carroll sculpted by Jose José Mariano de Creeft [77]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  125) Sophie Loeb Fountain [45]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  126) Still Hunt Sculpture by Edward Kemeys [66]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  127) Still Hunt Sculpture [45]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  128) Cedar Hill [212]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  129) Fifth Avenue [109]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  130) Carlyle Hotel [332]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  131) Duke Mansion: architect Horace Trumbauer [94]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  132) Fletcher Mansion [120]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  133) Metropolitan Museum of Art [324]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  134) 'Group of Bears' Sculpture by Paul Manship [112]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  135) Levy Gate [77]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  136) Greywacke Arch by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould [138]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  137) King Jagiello Monument by Stanislaw Ostrowski [143]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  138) King Jagiello Monument [113]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  139) Sackler Wing [28]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  140) Obelisk - Cleopatra's Needle - Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha [1569]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  141) Obelisk - William Vanderbilt gift [55]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  142) Obelisk - Cleopatra's Needle [44]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  143) Obelisk [32]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  144) Obelisk [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  145) Obelisk - Cleopatra's Needle [51]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  146) Obelisk [26]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  147) Obelisk - Lieut. Commander Henry Honeychurch Gorringe [23]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  148) Obelisk - The Most Important Monument in the Western Hemisphere [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  149) Obelisk - Cleopatra's Needle [409]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  150) Great Lawn & Turtle Pond [252]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  151) Belevedere Castle [232]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  152) Dr. Daniel Draper [26]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  153) Shakespeare in the Park [111]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  154) Alexander Hamilton statue by Charles (Carl) Conrads [60]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  155) Reservoir [155]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  156) Neue Galerie Museum [151]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  157) Guggenheim Museum - Solomon Guggenheim - Hilla Rebay - Frank Lloyd Wright [255]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  158) Guggenheim Museum [364]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  159) National Academy of Design - Archer Milton Huntington [308]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  160) Church of Heavenly Rest - Bertram Goodhue [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  161) Engineers' Gate [78]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  162) Mayor John Purroy Mitchel Monument [60]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  163) Engineers Gate - Thomas Hastings [36]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  164) Reservoir View [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  165) Cooper-Hewitt Museum - Home of Andrew Carnegie [189]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  166) Cooper-Hewitt Museum designed by Babb, Cook & Willard [63]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  167) Cooper-Hewitt Museum [23]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  168) Convent of the Sacred Heart - James Burden Mansion [177]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  169) Convent of the Sacred Heart [97]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  170) Jewish Museum designed by Charles P.H. Gilbert [113]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  171) Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Monument [226]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  172) Arthur Brisbane Memorial [75]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  173) Dr. James Marion Sims Sculpture by Ferdinand Von Miller [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  174) Dr. James Marion Sims Monument - Slave Women [152]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  175) New York Academy of Medicine [232]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  176) Museum of the City of New York [69]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  177) Alexander Hamilton Statue [142]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  178) DeWitt Clinton Statue by Adolph Alexander Weinman [109]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  179) Vanderbilt Gate [35]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  180) Conservatory Garden [95]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  181) Conservatory Garden [162]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  182) Burnett Fountain [212]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  183) Untermeyer Fountain - sculptor Walter Schott [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  184) Untermeyer Fountain [81]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  185) Harlem Meer [176]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  186) Harlem Meer [93]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  187) Duke Ellington Circle by Robert Graham [66]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  188) Duke Ellington Circle [91]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  189) Second Church of Christ Scientist: architect Frederick Comstock. [203]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  190) Congregation Shearith Israel Synagogue designed by Arnold Brunner [50]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  191) Dakota Apartment Building by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh [156]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  192) Dakota Apartment Building - John Lennon Assination [115]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  193) Strawberry Fields - John Lennon - Yoko Ono [329]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  194) Strawberry Fields [50]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  195) Strawberry Fields [95]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  196) Kenilworth Apartments [109]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  197) Fourth Universalist Society: architect William A. Potter [187]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  198) New York Historical Society [122]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  199) Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt Monument [88]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  200) Museum of Natural History - Albert Bicmore - President Ulysses S. Grant [88]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  201) Museum of Natural History [151]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  202) Museum of Natural History [13]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  203) Museum of Natural History [156]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  204) Daniel Boone Statue by James Earle Fraser [29]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  205) John James Audubon Statue by James Earle Fraser [29]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  206) William Clark Statue [19]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  207) Meriwether Lewis Statue by James Earle Fraser [21]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  208) Teddy Roosevelt Memorial by James Earle Fraser [49]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  209) Teddy Roosevelt Memorial [15]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  210) Teddy Roosevelt Memorial - African-American Man [65]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  211) Beresford [75]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  212) First Church of Christ Scientist [78]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  213) Daniel Webster Monument by Thomas Ball [171]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  214) The Falconer Sculpture by George Blackall Simonds [181]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  215) Plaque WWI [113]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  216) WWI Forest Memorial [182]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  217) The Falconer Sculpture [116]

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Sherry Netherland Hotel and Co-op -- Central Park, New York City, New York
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Central Park - New York City, New York
Sherry Netherland Hotel and Co-op



On the east side of Fifth Avenue, the landmark Sherry Netherland Hotel (781 Fifth Ave.) was built by Louis Sherry the ice-cream and candy magnate, as an apartment hotel in 1927. Today it is a cooperative apartment building and a hotel that rents out rooms and suites with the owners permission to guests. Designed by Schultze & Weaver, the building helped make luxury high rise living desirable. In his day, Louis Sherry was a competitor to the famous Delmonico's restaurant. Louis Sherry started out with a confectionary shop and expanded into home catering for the wealthy. The name Louis Sherry lives on as Louis Sherry Brands of Chicago which sells, ironically, sugar-free packaged foods. Louis Sherry is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.





Schultze & Weaver
(1921 –1951)
were important hotel designers.

Leonard Schultze (b. 1878 Chicago, IL – d. White Plains, NY 1951) believed Paris was the ideal city. He studied architecture at City College and at the architecture school of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under E. L. Masqueray. He served in the Spanish-American War before he began his career. From 1908-11, he served as chief of design for Grand Central Station. He believed architects should spend more time 'blending a new structure with those surrounding it.' 'That's why everyone ought to go at lest once a year to Paris,' he explained. He was a member of Metropolitan of Art, the Architectural League, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, Phi Gamma Delta, The American Yacht Club and the Scarsdale Gold and Country Club.

Major S. Fullerton Weaver (b. 1880 Philadelphia, PA – d. NY 1939) was a great-grandnephew of President James Buchanan. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902 as a civil engineer. In WWI, he served in France in the First Battalion of the 306th Infantry, 77th Division. After the war, he helped organize a group that found jobs for soldiers under the slogan 'New York Jobs for New York Soldiers.' He was a former governor of the New York Real Estate Board. He served as president of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, and had been a member of Lotos, Oakland Golf, Maidstone and Turf and Field clubs.

Schultze and Weaver began their firm in 1921. They designed in many styles, ranging from from English Tudor to French Renaissance. Great hotels were built by them: the Sherry Netherland, the Pierre, The Waldorf Astoria, the Lexington, The Breakers in Palm Beach and the Los Angeles Biltmore. Often they were accused of borrowing designs from others. Enormous lobbies were their trademark (the Sherry Netherland was the exception). Their clients were rich. They also built the Miami Biltmore, The Roney Plaza in Miami Beach; and hotels in Georgia, Ohio, Wisconsin, Canada, and Havana Cuba; and Park Avenue apartment buildings. The Great Depression ended their fortune.








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