South Street Seaport Museum, New York Photos

The South Street Seaport district comprises a series of restored heritage warehouses & Pier 17 which now offer shopping & other diversions. Amidst this setting are the several sites of the South Street Seaport Museum including a collection of historic & tall ships plus an indoor display of ship memorablia, scrimshaw & other art.

See also: Museums of New York City, Maritime Museums & Historic Ships
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Pier 17 shopping mall at South Street Seaport.

South Street Seaport's Pier 17 & Brooklyn Bridge.

Wavertree (1885) by Mordaunt Oswald & Co. at South Street Seaport Museum. On National Register.

Admiral Dewey (now the Helen McAllister) Tugboat (1900) by Burlee Drydock Co. at South Street Seaport Museum. On National Register.

Barque Peking (1911) at South Street Seaport Museum.

Figurehead of barque Peking at South Street Seaport Museum.

Masts & rigging of barque Peking at South Street Seaport Museum.

Highrises along South Street over museum ships of South Street Seaport Museum.

Highrises along South Street over museum ships of South Street Seaport Museum.

Ambrose (Lightship) (1907) by US Lighthouse Service.
On National Register.

Light masts of Lightship Ambrose at South Street Seaport Museum.

Pier 17 of South Street Seaport with Lightship Ambrose.

Water taxi Marian S. Heiskell at Pier 17 of South Street Seaport.

Queen Mary 2 seen from South Street Seaport.

South Street Seaport Museum annex (1836) (211 Water St.).

Schermerhorn Row (1812) (along Fulton St.) with South Street Seaport Museum. Style: Federal. On National Register.

Flemish-bond brickwork of Schermerhorn Row with South Street Seaport Museum.

Carved gilt eagle once on pilot house of tugboat Admiral Dewey, now Helen McAllister at South Street Seaport Museum.

Henry B. Hyde painting of tall ships before Brooklyn Bridge by John Stobard at South Street Seaport Museum.

Castle Garden painting of paddle wheel steamer off Battery by Hippolyte Victor Valentine Sebron at South Street Seaport Museum.

Hudson River Steamer America painting by Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen at South Street Seaport Museum.

Model of Sea Witch (1846) at South Street Seaport Museum.

Model of British Ship-of-the-Line at South Street Seaport Museum.

Scrimshawed whale's tooth of whale wrecking whaler at South Street Seaport Museum.

Scrimshawed whale's tooth of chicken with sailor's head at South Street Seaport Museum.

Engraved Nautilus Shell at South Street Seaport Museum.

Sculpted seal of City of New York saved from public building at South Street Seaport Museum.

Sculpted Indian on seal of City of New York at South Street Seaport Museum.

Sculpted sailor on seal of City of New York at South Street Seaport Museum.

Heritage commercial buildings on Front St. in South Street Seaport district.

Front Street streetscape of South Street Seaport with Schermerhorn Row at end.

Front Street streetscape of Canon's Walk in South Street Seaport.

Bogardus Building (1983) (15-17 Fulton St. at Front) replicates earlier stolen cast iron facade by James Bogardus at South Street Seaport. Architect: Beyer Blinder Belle.

Streetscape along Fulton St. at South Street Seaport marketplace.

Heritage brick warehouse buildings at Front & Beekman Streets with 211 Front (1885) by George B. Post at center in South Street Seaport Heritage District.

Carmine's Italian Seafood Restaurant at Front & Beekman Streets in South Street Seaport Heritage District.

Titanic Memorial Lighthouse (1913) on Water St. moved to South Street Seaport Heritage District in 1976.


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