Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . off a dinner party,reception or ball with a sumptuous formal-ity, avoiding any hint of hominess. This applies especially to the next stop onthe tour, which we encounter as we come offFifth Avenue into 95th Street. At No. 3,also in the French 18th century manner,although on a wider frontage than theCodman houses, the hall, stairs and thesuite of rooms on the second floor (or pianonobile—noble floor), are those of a mansionwhere the owner entertained la
Discover New York with Henry Hope Reed, : a series of well-mapped walking tours, reprinted from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune . off a dinner party,reception or ball with a sumptuous formal-ity, avoiding any hint of hominess. This applies especially to the next stop onthe tour, which we encounter as we come offFifth Avenue into 95th Street. At No. 3,also in the French 18th century manner,although on a wider frontage than theCodman houses, the hall, stairs and thesuite of rooms on the second floor (or pianonobile—noble floor), are those of a mansionwhere the owner entertained lavishly. Theopulence of the interior is reflected in therich, lavish ornament of the facade. Thedesigner in this instance was Horace Trum-bauer, architect of the former Duke palaceat 1 East 78th Street. No. 3 now houses the Lycee Francais deNew York, a school which, under charter ofthe University of the State of New York,prepares French-speaking youngsters for thebaccalaureate degree, the sesame to Frenchinstitutions of higher learning. There isprobably no school in the city more fittinglyhoused. Next door, at No. 7, is another former 16. 9 4 rti ST. Ken Fitzgerald A tour embracing only two Manhattan blocks turns up no fewer than a half-dozen town houses—alldesigned as fashionable private residences—that are still worth study as models of gracious urbanhousing. Tours end brings the visitor to the historic 9Uh Street Armory, recently reprieved. residence, now the House of the Redeemer,an Episcopal retreat. It is Florentine instyle, although of brick and limestone, de-signed by Egisto Fabbri and GrosvenorAtterbury, tne latter being the architect ofForest Hills Gardens. They built it for Shepherd Fabbri, a great-granddaugh-ter of Commodore Vanderbilt, and it istypical of that familys flourish. Returning to the Avenue, the tour con-tinues to 94th Street. On the northeastcorner, 1130 Fifth offers another form of theclassical, the Colonial. Now belonging tothe National
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