Tour Highlights

Take in outrageous stories of Gilded Age wealth, architecture, and art while strolling along the Avenue where they happened

See the footprint of the largest single residence ever built in Manhattan

Learn some of the secrets of the famous Frick Collection as you stroll by

Discover a charming bookshop tucked into a Fifth Avenue mansion

Uncover one of the last single residence mansion on Fifth Avenue

Make this tour private, schedule it anytime. Starts at $312

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Guests Love This Tour!

Informative tour Very informative tour. The guide was very experienced, spoke clearly and provided a great number of interesting historical stories.

Karin H
6/23/2025

Very informative tour! Laura did an amazing job yesterday with our tour! Loved all the pics on her i-pad to go along with the mansions history. And only having two other couples made it very personal and close.

I1942ICcheryl
5/17/2025
Excellent tour Lots of interesting information, history and sites on and around 5th Avenue. Our guide Richard was great! We all really enjoyed this tour.

Shannon C
5/17/2025

A mile walk up 5th Ave. and back into the Gilded Age of Manhattan Laura lead a beautiful tour. She knew so much about the buildings and the people who inhabited them. Her knowledge of New York history is rich and the stories she told were fascinating. She even helped us locate a private library at the end of the tour that my wife has always wanted to visit. She gave us tips for how to see other parts of secret New York.

Richard M
4/20/2025
Interesting People & Their Spaces! Rosemary was a wonderful tour guide. She was prompt to our meeting place, did a lot of pre-walk teaching about NYC (her home), and guided us for 20 blocks (59th to 79th St) of 5th Ave, pointing out interesting sites and filling in the ‘people’ angles on all of them. She also had relevant pictures to share with us on a tablet computer as we progressed. It was cold, windy, and started to spit rain at the end of the tour, but it was all worth it. Thank you, Untapped New York!

Aleisa M
4/11/2025

Interesting tour, highly recommend This interesting tour provided information about architecture and society, including the drama. So glad we did this tour. Richard was fantastic. I even got a book recommendation (Empty Mansions) from someone on the tour.

Sherrie L
4/10/2025
A gilded tour of the Gilded Age We took the Fifth Avenue Gilded Age Mansions Walking tour with with Richard. It was excellent. He’s very friendly, knowledgeable and approachable. Learned all about the Astors (old money) the Vanderbilts (new money) and the extraordinary homes they built. We also went into a few of the buildings (that are no longer private residences) including the Calvin Klein building on Madison (they were very accommodating). We all had earpieces so it was easy to hear everything. It was a beautiful, warm day in NYC. Everything was perfect.

Richard L
3/30/2025

Secret Gems of the Guilded Age tour Richard, our tour guide was amazing. He shared little known facts about the guided age that were so interesting. We saw hidden gems of NYC that we would have never identified and some on the tour were lifelong New Yorkers!

Gerard K
3/29/2025
Very interesting and entertaining Bob was an excellent tour guide. He had great stories about the families that lived in the mansions and the history of the Gilded Age. Even though the weather turned cold and a little rainy, it still was enjoyable and well worth our time.

karenlp2018
3/27/2025

A must see, Fifth Ave Gilded Age Mansions. Fifth Avenue Gilded Age Mansions was an amazing tour. I learned so much about how Fifth Ave. evolved as an enclave for the very wealthy. The architecture is amazing and the tour guide shared such interesting facts and stories about the mansions and the people who lived there. I loved going into two of mansions…such a great experience. I would highly reccomend this to visitors & natives of NYC.

David G
3/22/2025

About This Tour:

Take a stroll along Fifth Avenue as it was during the Gilded Age when grand mansions of millionaires lined the illustrious street. As you revisit Millionaire’s Row, you will discover works of architecture lost to time and some that remain today with a new purpose. This tour will resurrect some of the magnificent mansions that no longer stand bringing those glamorous abodes back to life with stunning historical images and scintillating stories of the affairs that took place inside. We will have the opportunity to peek inside two of those gilded Age mansions, one currently used as a retail store and another used as an embassy’s cultural services.

Ear pieces are provided to each guests, ensuring everyone hears the guide perfectly, even from a distance!

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