welcome : e-mail : my books : tours and news : abroad in new york : for hire : recommended sites for hire Francis Morrone is available to lecture or to lead private tours. He has lectured or led tours for a wide variety of organizations, companies, schools, and museums. He is a confident, enthusiastic lecturer who loves to speak to all kinds of audiences. He has spoken successfully at academic conferences and to children's groups. In a typical week, he might teach an architectural history seminar to the associates of a major architectural firm, speak to an Elderhostel group about the history of New York theater, and lecture to a roomful of private-school teachers about the American presidency. See below for a list of topics on which he has delivered successful, crowd-pleasing lectures and walking tours.

To arrange a lecture or tour, call (718) 344-0715, or e-mail Francis Morrone.

Here is a list of some of Francis Morrone's clients for private lectures and tours:

Colleges and Universities Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst (Hildesheim) University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands) National College of Art and Design of Oslo Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts of Stanford University St. Mary's Seminary & University (Baltimore, Md.) Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Mich.) St. Anselm College (Manchester, N.H.) University of Heidelberg New York Arts Program University of Mississippi Museums Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (Smithsonian Institution) Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst of Bremen Pinakothek der Art Moderne (Munich) Mobile (Ala.) Museum of Art Tucson Museum of Art Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Mass.) National Galleries of Scotland Historic Hudson Valley (Tarrytown, N.Y.) Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of the City of New York New-York Historical Society Cincinnati Art Museum Private Interest Organizations and Clubs American Institute of Wine and Food Accueil New York (French women's group) Chicago Drama League Pro Musica Tours Harvard Club Homemakers Council of Nassau County (N.Y.) Professional Organizations and Associations Greater New York Dental Meeting United Federation of Teachers American Institute of Architects Leadership Program of the Central Park Historical Society (private-school teachers' training workshops) Mountbatten Internship Programme Institutional Investors' Institute American College of Real Estate Lawyers American Road and Transportation Builders Association Secondary Schools Rutgers Preparatory School (Somerset, N.J.) Sacred Heart Academy of Greenwich (Conn.) Lycée Français de New York Bushwick High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

College Alumni Associations Duke University Alumni Association Northwestern University Alumni Association Skidmore College Alumni Association Brandeis University National Women's Committee Preservation Organizations Lower Manhattan Emergency Preservation Fund National Trust for Historic Preservation Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Community Trust of New York Frank Lloyd Wright Building Foundation Chicago Architecture Foundation Private Corporations and Firms DaimlerChrysler Tyco/Earth Tech Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corp. Covington Fabrics Corp. Prophet Brand Strategy GlaxoSmithKline Swiss Re New Markets Berry & Co. Public Relations CB Commercial Real Estate Group Willkie Farr & Gallagher (law firm) Pfizer Pharmaceutical Mayer, Brown & Platt (law firm) SG Cowen Securities Corp. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Fairchild Publications Governmental and Civic Organizations New York State Council on the Arts City Parks Foundation (New York, N.Y.) NYC2012 Travel Agencies RMP Travel Group Discount Attractions of Levittown (N.Y.) Thomas Travel of Salt Lake City Boscov's Travel Center, Reading, Penn. Heritage Group Travel of Bath (U.K.) Art Focus au Point of Montreal

Below are topics about which Francis Morrone has given lectures or walking tours. Each is a subject about which he speaks confidently, competently, and entertainingly. Each is also a subject about which he has written for publication, and in many cases taught in a classroom at a college or university.

Some suggested lecture topics:

Neighborhood Histories Greenwich Village Gramercy Park Williamsburg Bay Ridge Brooklyn Heights Park Slope Others Topics in New York City History Theater in New York The Irish in New York The Italians in New York Bohemian New York The Rockefellers' New York The Vanderbilts' New York The Astors' New York J.P. Morgan, Financier and Collector History of Brooklyn Public Sculpture in New York The Harlem Renaissance Hollywood's New York New York and American Popular Song Architecture of New York City Colonial and Georgian Architecture of New York Greek Revival and Gothic Revival Architecture in New York Victorian New York Rise of the New York Skyscraper Modern Architecture in New York Survey of New York Architecture Survey of Brooklyn Architecture Beaux-Arts New York Churches and Synagogues of New York Architecture of McKim, Mead & White "St. Patrick's Cathedral and the American Scene"

The American Presidency The Founding Fathers' New York George Washington's New York Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Abraham Lincoln's New York New York's Theodore Roosevelt History of Political Conventions in New York History of the Republican Party American and English Literature The Life and Works of Edith Wharton The Life and Works of Henry James Walt Whitman's New York The Life of Washington Irving Town and Country in the Novels of Anthony Trollope The Life and Works of Herman Melville Saul Bellow's New York Marianne Moore's Brooklyn History of Literary New York Architecture and Urbanism The Ideas of Jane Jacobs The Architectural Theory of Geoffrey Scott "Preserving Preservation" Principles of Classical Architecture "Architectural Literacy"

Some suggested topics for walking tours:

Manhattan "The Past and Future of the World Trade Center Site" Grand Central Terminal Times Square Central Park Riverside Park and Riverside Drive Gramercy Park The West Village The East Village The Hudson Yards and the High Line Manhattan's Gold Coast "Gargoyles, Grotesques, Maidens, and Masks: Anonymous Craftsmen and Building Decoration on the Upper West Side" Morningside Heights Chelsea The South Street Seaport Battery Park City Wall Street Churches and Synagogues of New York City Walt Whitman's New York George Washington's New York Washington Irving's New York Edith Wharton's New York Stanford White's New York The New York of Henry James Herman Melville's New York The Rockefellers' New York The Vanderbilts' New York The Astors' New York Murray Hill The Lower East Side and Chinatown "Irish Footsteps in Old New York" Italians in New York Rockefeller Center "Blame It on the Bossa Nova: The Avenue of the Americas in the 1950s and 1960s" East End Avenue and Carl Schurz Park

Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights Fulton Ferry, DUMBO, and Vinegar Hill Park Slope Prospect Park Coney Island  Brighton Beach Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Williamsburg Greenpoint Sheepshead Bay Red Hook Bay Ridge North Bay Ridge South Cobble Hill and the Columbia Street Waterfront District Downtown Brooklyn Sheepshead Bay Gravesend Ocean Parkway The Bronx The Grand Concourse Queens Forest Hills Jackson Heights

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