Venues

(To Be Announced)

Bayard's India House

A 1851 Colonial Mansion located in the Heart of Manhattan's Financial District.

Located in the landmark India House, Bayard's offers guests a warm and elegant setting for your special event requests. Our eight private dining rooms have been restored to their turn of the century glory. They are beautifully appointed with authentic Oriental and maritime artwork, wheat colored drapes, Windsor period chairs, fireplaces and hand painted Chandeliers.

Bayard's Private Rooms accommodate anywhere from 6-300 guests. The entire facility can hold 1000 for a gala reception.

History

The history of One Hanover Square is rich, colorful and almost three centuries old. During its lifetime, the building has been a family residence, the New York Cotton Exchange and a private club for overseas merchants and traders. Meant to invoke the history of One Hanover Square, the design of Bayard's private dining facility respects the integrity of the architecture, while gracefully incorporating elegant modern elements.

Each corner of Bayard's displays one of many treasure uncovered during the renovation, from nautical paintings by Buttersworth and Lai-Sung, to ship models, to a majestic ship figurehead from "The Glory of the Seas," which overlooks the Garden View room and stairway.

The third floor of Bayard's houses unique banquet rooms of varying sizes that can accommodate an intimate party of 15 in a fire-lit parlor, or a gathering of 200 people in the grand "Marine Room." The latter is stylishly ringed by nautical rope molding and lit by Victorian chandeliers adorned with silver seashells. No matter which room you choose, Bayard's design invokes the building's historical roots in a warm and elegant setting.

www.Bayards.com

Saint Jean Baptiste Church

The New York Swing Dance Society (formerly at the Cat Club and Irving Plaza) -dedicated to presenting live big bands - has recently moved to St Jean's. It is easy to get to by subway, and the downstairs party room has a beautiful large wooden dance floor and high arched ceilings. Live Alcoholic beverages and soft drinks are available for purchase.

History

The cornerstone was laid in 1912 for a sanctuary accommodating 1,200 people and an adjacent parish house. The Roman Catholic church, finished in 1914,completed restoration of it's Lexington Ave facade in 1990.

Nicholas Serracino, who had studied in Naples and designed other Catholic churches in New York, designed the building as a giant limestone structure with a temple-fronted portico and twin open towers on the Lexington Avenue front and a great dome over the crossing back along 76th Street.

The steel framework for the church towered over the smaller buildings on Lexington Avenue at the time of the cornerstone laying. The completed building is usually described as Italian Renaissance in style, but there is also an austerity and a modernity to it that suggests later work of the Baroque period or even the Neo-Classic Revival of the 18th century.

The completed St. Jean Baptiste, with a dome 172 feet high, rose with an abrupt elegance over a street of brownstones and modest flat buildings, rather a Fifth Avenue touch for what was emerging as a noisy subway street.

In 1969 St. Jean Baptiste was designated a landmark.

http://www.sjbrcc.net/