Beginning with Morningside Heights at 110th Street, the rocky highlands along the Hudson River extend up toward the tip of the island, through Hamilton and Washington Heights to Inwood Hill Park, the only place in Manhattan that hasn’t changed since Henry Hudson anchored there in 1609. Inland to the east is Harlem, the vibrant center of African-American culture. It was first settled by the Dutch in 1658 as the village of Nieuw Haarlem, and was transformed from farmland when the elevated railroads arrived in 1880, growing up even more after the subway reached it in 1901. It developed into a center of African-American life, with the encouragment of its churches, after a real estate panic hit the area at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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ST. PAUL’S CHAPEL
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, NORTH OF WEST 116TH STREET
BETWEEN BROADWAY AND AMSTERDAM AVENUE
1897, MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE
351
LOW MEMORIAL LIBRARY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, NORTH OF WEST 116TH STREET
BETWEEN BROADWAY AND AMSTERDAM AVENUE
1907, HOWELLS & STOKES
352
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
AMSTERDAM AVENUE AT WEST 112TH STREET
1892–1911, HEINS & LA FARGE
1911–42, CRAM & FERGUSON
353
AVERY HALL
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, WEST 116TH STREET
BETWEEN BROADWAY AND AMSTERDAM AVENUE
1912, MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE
354
GRAHAM COURT
1923–1937 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARD
BETWEEN WEST 116TH AND WEST 117TH STREETS
1901, CLINTON & RUSSELL
355
GRANT’S TOMB
RIVERSIDE DRIVE AT 122ND STREET
1897, JOHN H. DUNCAN
356
RIVERSIDE CHURCH
490 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
BETWEEN WEST 120TH AND WEST 122ND STREETS
1930, ALLEN & COLLINS
357
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
BROADWAY, BETWEEN WEST 120TH
AND WEST 122ND STREETS
1910, ALLEN & COLLINS
358
WASHINGTON APARTMENTS
2034–2040 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARD
AT WEST 122ND STREET
1884, MORTIMER C. MERRITT
359
ST. MARY’S CHURCH-MANHATTANVILLE
521 WEST 126TH STREET, OFF AMSTERDAM AVENUE
1909, CARRÈRE & HASTINGS AND T. E. BLAKE
360
JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
3080 BROADWAY
BETWEEN WEST 122ND AND WEST 123RD STREETS
1930, GEHRON, ROSS & ALLEY
361
WADLEIGH HIGH SCHOOL
215 WEST 114TH STREET, BETWEEN ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. AND
FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARDS
1902, C. B. J. SNYDER
362
THERESA TOWERS
2090 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARD
BETWEEN WEST 124TH AND WEST 125TH STREETS
1913, GEORGE AND EDWARD BLUM
363
APOLLO THEATER
253 WEST 125TH STREET, BETWEEN ADAM CLAYTON POWELL,
JR. AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARDS
1914, GEORGE KEISTER
364
ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH
2067 FIFTH AVENUE AT EAST 127TH STREET
1873, HENRY M. CONGDON
365
17 EAST 128TH STREET
BETWEEN FIFTH AND MADISON AVENUE
c. 1864
366
STRIVER’S ROW
WEST 138TH TO WEST 139TH STREETS, BETWEEN ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARDS
1893, JAMES BROWN LORD, BRUCE PRICE, AND STANFORD WHITE
367
HAMILTON GRANGE
287 CONVENT AVENUE
BETWEEN WEST 141ST AND WEST 142ND STREETS
1802, JOHN MCCOMB, JR.
368
ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH
132 WEST 138TH STREET BETWEEN MALCOLM X
AND ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARDS
1923, CHARLES W. BOLTON & SONS
369
135TH STREET GATEHOUSE
CROTON AQUEDUCT
CONVENT AVENUE AT WEST 135TH STREET
1890, FREDERICK S. COOK
370
CITY COLLEGE
WEST 138TH TO WEST 141ST STREETS
AMSTERDAM AVENUE TO ST. NICHOLAS TERRACE
1907
371
AUDUBON TERRACE
BROADWAY, BETWEEN WEST 155TH
AND WEST 156TH STREETS
1908, CHARLES PRATT HUNTINGTON
372
CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSION
550 WEST 155TH STREET AT BROADWAY
1914, CRAM, GOODHUE & FERGUSON
373
MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION
EDGECOMBE AVENUE
BETWEEN WEST 160TH AND WEST 162ND STREETS
1765
374
UNITED CHURCH
BROADWAY AT WEST 175TH STREET
1930, THOMAS W. LAMB
375
HIGHBRIDGE WATER TOWER
HARLEM RIVER AT WEST 173RD STREET
1872, JOHN B. JERVIS
376
THE CLOISTERS
FORT TRYON PARK
1939, ALLEN, COLLINS & WILLIS
377
DYCKMAN HOUSE
4881 BROADWAY AT WEST 204TH STREET
1785