7. 55 E. 74th Street

This townhouse at 55 East 74th Street was the home of Eleanor Roosevelt during the last few years of her life. There she entertained and met with some of the most important figures of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. Mrs. Roosevelt died in her home on November 7, 1962. The townhouse has changed very little on the outside since Mrs. Roosevelt’s time there.