Midtown, Park Avenue Between 54th and 53rd Streets

Mary Sargent © 2007 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

Well, see? Just turn the corner onto Park Avenue and right off the bat, here's the Lever House. And a bunch of other tall glassy buildings I can't identify. The Lever House, though, is one of the early important Modernist buildings, "a seminal work of Modernist architecture," according to Carter B. Horsley, who writes a spirited and interesting article about it. And please go here to see a photograph that shows clearly how breathtaking it was when built in 1951 (and still is).

See map.