The view from The Cloisters Museum www.oconnorgreentoursnyc.com

This is the story of The Cloisters, told by a licensed sightseeing guide who does tours there.

The Cloisters is in fort Tryon Park, NY, seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zwM3OkjVrE

Directions to The Cloisters via subway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXBcyLrA3LU

Cornelius Billings owned this former hilltop estate, where he lived in a Louis-XIV-style mansion. Just him, his wife, their two kids, and their twenty-three servants! The 25,000 square foot mansion burned to the ground in 1925. John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil (S.O., or Esso, later Exxon) was developing the area into a public park when the Billings Mansion burned down. Billings then moved to 820 Fifth Avenue, and New York City gained a park.

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[x2mars]

Is that the place with the unicorn tapestries?

[tourguideStan]

Yes, the Unicorn Tapestries are here. As well, probably the best views of the Hudson from the New York Side, looking straight over to The Palisades, south to the GWB, and north as far as the Tappan Zee Bridge.

[maryjulie2]

A very interesting video!!!