New York City Walking Tour - South Street Seaport Museum & Area

 

 Schermerhorn Row Part of the South Street Seaport District

This Sunday, September 16, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. I will be giving a tour of the South Street Seaport Historic District to support the South Street Seaport Museum. The walking tour will begin at the museum's headquarters Address: 12 Fulton Street, Manhattan 10038 Phone; (212) 748-8600 Website: SouthStreetSeaportMuseum.org The walking tour will be free of charge with the museum giving a 2 for 1 Admission to all who attend the walking tour. Read on to find out about the seaport.

The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District. It features some of the oldest architecture in downtown Manhattan, and includes the largest concentration of restored early 19th-century commercial buildings in the city. This includes renovated original mercantile buildings, renovated sailing ships, the former Fulton Fish Market, and modern tourist malls featuring food, shopping and nightlife, with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge. At the entrance to the Seaport is the Titanic Memorial Lighthouse.

South Street Seaport Museum was founded in 1967 by Peter and Norma Stanford. When originally opened as a museum, the focus of the Seaport Museum conservation was to be an educational historic site, with "shops" mostly operating as reproductions of working environments found during the Seaport's heyday, 1820 to 1860.

Designated by Congress in 1998 as one of several museums, which together make up "America's National  Maritime Museum", South Street Seaport Museum sits in a 12 square-block historic district that is the site of the original port of New York City. The Museum has over 30,000 square feet (2,800 m²) of exhibition space and educational facilities. It houses exhibition galleries, a working 19th-century print shop, an archeology museum, a maritime library, a craft center, a marine life conservation lab, and the largest privately owned fleet of historic ships in the country.