Scenic bend in the East River where Gracie Mansion was built 

Two-story wooden mansion  

Federal style architecture 

Restoration initiated by Mayor Bloomberg in 2003 

The foyer's trompe l'oeil painted floor appears to be made of marble. Its design features a compass rose, which pays homage to Gracie's success as a shipping merchant  A compass design exploding on the floor. It was painted there in 1981, when resident Ed Koch (the City’s 105th mayor), launched the namesake conservancy to speculatively authenticate the interior. The experts engaged to create the compass design knew that the slave-empowered white upper class of that Federal era — like the Gracies with their neoclassical taste — always sought to decorate and thus conceal the plain pine planks of the actual floors. Options included mats, carpeting, and trompe l’oiel: in this case, decorative painting disguised as marble tile. In that spirit, the Gracie Mansion compass rose as copied from surviving samples of such solutions in the late 1700s proved an ideal and far from merely decorative solution.

The library has retained much of its original character; the mantel and the dentil molding date to the construction of the house in 1799 

The patent-yellow parlor is part of the circa 1810 addition to the house, and provided the Gracie family with more room in which to entertain guests at their renowned parties 

Gracie Mansion’s dining room features an historic scenic wallpaper, Les Jardins Francais, manufactured by Zuber in the 1830s