Thursday, June 9, 2011

What Did Gracie Mansion Never House?

And the answer is ...

c) a bakery

After being used as a private residence for nearly a century, Gracie Mansion was seized by the city government, which made the building into a "comfort station" for visitors of the adjoining Carl Schurz Park, complete with restrooms and an ice cream stand. It also included classrooms where newcomers to New York could study English. Eventually, Gracie Mansion was made into the Museum of the City of New York, where it stayed until the early 1940s.

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