This Beaux Arts building, built between 1903 and 1913 faces down Park Avenue at 42nd Street. The tours are by donation and cover the construction, history and design of the terminal as well as the legal battle over the preservation of the building's architecture. Grant's Tomb Civil War general and two-term U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant rests beside his wife in the largest mausoleum in the United States. The two grand sarcophagi enclosed within are modeled after Napoleon's tomb in Les Invalides in Paris. The white granite mausoleum which overlooks the Hudson River and Riverside park was completed in 1897, and contains Grant memorabilia and Civil War artifacts on display.
Admission is free.
122th Street and Riverside Drive.