HARLEM AND THE HEIGHTS

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

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LOW MEMORIAL LIBRARY Image
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, NORTH OF WEST 116TH STREET
BETWEEN BROADWAY AND AMSTERDAM AVENUE
1907, HOWELLS & STOKES

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CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE

AMSTERDAM AVENUE AT WEST 112TH STREET
1892–1911, HEINS & LA FARGE
1911–42, CRAM & FERGUSON

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AVERY HALL Image
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, WEST 116TH STREET
BETWEEN BROADWAY AND AMSTERDAM AVENUE
1912, MCKIM, MEAD & WHITE

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GRAHAM COURT Image
1923–1937 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARD
BETWEEN WEST 116TH AND WEST 117TH STREETS
1901, CLINTON & RUSSELL

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GRANT’S TOMB Image
RIVERSIDE DRIVE AT 122ND STREET
1897, JOHN H. DUNCAN

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RIVERSIDE CHURCH

490 RIVERSIDE DRIVE
BETWEEN WEST 120TH AND WEST 122ND STREETS
1930, ALLEN & COLLINS

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UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Image
BROADWAY, BETWEEN WEST 120TH
AND WEST 122ND STREETS
1910, ALLEN & COLLINS

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WASHINGTON APARTMENTS Image
2034–2040 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARD
AT WEST 122ND STREET
1884, MORTIMER C. MERRITT

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ST. MARY’S CHURCH-MANHATTANVILLE Image
521 WEST 126TH STREET, OFF AMSTERDAM AVENUE
1909, CARRÈRE & HASTINGS AND T. E. BLAKE

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JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

3080 BROADWAY
BETWEEN WEST 122ND AND WEST 123RD STREETS
1930, GEHRON, ROSS & ALLEY

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WADLEIGH HIGH SCHOOL Image
215 WEST 114TH STREET, BETWEEN ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. AND
FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARDS
1902, C. B. J. SNYDER

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THERESA TOWERS Image
2090 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARD
BETWEEN WEST 124TH AND WEST 125TH STREETS
1913, GEORGE AND EDWARD BLUM

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APOLLO THEATER Image
253 WEST 125TH STREET, BETWEEN ADAM CLAYTON POWELL,
JR. AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARDS
1914, GEORGE KEISTER

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ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH Image
2067 FIFTH AVENUE AT EAST 127TH STREET
1873, HENRY M. CONGDON

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17 EAST 128TH STREET Image
BETWEEN FIFTH AND MADISON AVENUE
c. 1864

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STRIVER’S ROW Image
WEST 138TH TO WEST 139TH STREETS, BETWEEN ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOULEVARDS
1893, JAMES BROWN LORD, BRUCE PRICE, AND STANFORD WHITE

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HAMILTON GRANGE Image
287 CONVENT AVENUE
BETWEEN WEST 141ST AND WEST 142ND STREETS
1802, JOHN MCCOMB, JR.

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ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH Image
132 WEST 138TH STREET BETWEEN MALCOLM X
AND ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, JR. BOULEVARDS
1923, CHARLES W. BOLTON & SONS

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135TH STREET GATEHOUSE Image
CROTON AQUEDUCT
CONVENT AVENUE AT WEST 135TH STREET
1890, FREDERICK S. COOK

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CITY COLLEGE

WEST 138TH TO WEST 141ST STREETS
AMSTERDAM AVENUE TO ST. NICHOLAS TERRACE
1907

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AUDUBON TERRACE Image
BROADWAY, BETWEEN WEST 155TH
AND WEST 156TH STREETS
1908, CHARLES PRATT HUNTINGTON

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CHURCH OF THE INTERCESSION Image
550 WEST 155TH STREET AT BROADWAY
1914, CRAM, GOODHUE & FERGUSON

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MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION Image
EDGECOMBE AVENUE
BETWEEN WEST 160TH AND WEST 162ND STREETS
1765

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UNITED CHURCH

BROADWAY AT WEST 175TH STREET
1930, THOMAS W. LAMB

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HIGHBRIDGE WATER TOWER Image
HARLEM RIVER AT WEST 173RD STREET
1872, JOHN B. JERVIS

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THE CLOISTERS Image
FORT TRYON PARK
1939, ALLEN, COLLINS & WILLIS

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DYCKMAN HOUSE Image
4881 BROADWAY AT WEST 204TH STREET
1785