Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House

The Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House stands on the corner of Madison Avenue and East Seventy-Second Street. You can identify this limestone mansion by its steep slate roof, spiky dormer windows, and carved facade, which were designed to echo the grand châteaux of the Loire Valley in France. Completed in eighteen ninety-eight, the building was intended as a private residence for the heiress Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo, who spent years traveling through Europe to collect statues, paintings, and tapestries to fill its rooms.