Designated: May 18, 2021 Throughout its history, New York City has attracted immigrants fleeing adverse political and economic conditions. Only a few of the City’s neighborhoods reflect this pattern of immigration to the extent of Washington Heights–a neighborhood that every few decades has received immigrants of diverse and varying ethnicities, backgrounds, and cultures. Since the beginning of the 20th […]
Designated: June 15, 2021 The Harlem Branch was built with funding from Andrew Carnegie. The building was constructed between 1907 to 1909 in the Classical Revival Style by the architecture firm McKim, Mead & White. The building features a limestone facade on a low granite base with large recessed arched openings on the first two […]
Designated: February 2, 2021 227 Duffield Street dates from the mid-19th century, was home to Harriet and Thomas Truesdell from 1851 – 1863, and is the home where Harriet died in 1862. The Truesdells were intimately involved in the American Abolitionist movement, befriending such luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Lloyd Garrison. The Truesdells […]
P.S. 48 was one of twenty-four schools constructed in New York during the 1930s as part of the Public Works Administration program. All schools were built on city-owned property, with the federal government providing $25 million in funds for their construction. These schools provided 50,000 new seats and were designed in an array of architectural […]
Designated: November 10, 2020 The complex was commissioned by the Sisters of Mercy in 1899 as an orphanage for 200 children between the ages of 2 and 7 years of age. By the mid-twentieth century, the complex housed unmarried mothers and their babies. After the babies reached three months of age, the mothers were sent […]
Designated: November 12, 1974 *The building stands on a rusticated dark stone base which is separated from the first floor by a bold, rolled molding. The rusticated first floor is pierced by deeply recessed square-headed windows with flat arches. The focal point of ‘the facade is the centrally located round-arch doorway which is en- framed by rusticated […]
Designated: February 8, 2000 The Williamsbridge Reservoir Keeper’s House is the only surviving building in New York City associated with the Bronx and Byram Rivers water system. Particularly between 1884 and 1906, this system served the critical function of supplying the burgeoning western section of the Bronx and helped the city to bridge the gap […]
Designated: April 12, 2016 This transitional Italianate style farmhouse was constructed around 1860 as part of the estate of William Schofield, a member one of the first families to settle City Island in 1826. The residence is a fine example of the Italianate style of architecture that dominated American house design from 1850 to 1880, […]
Designated: June 21, 1966 This elegant stone mansion, situated on twenty acres of land on the Hudson, commands a sweeping view of the Palisades. It is a superb example of an American manor house. The original central portion, in the Federal Style, blends harmoniously with the two wings, which were added later.
The Washington Bridge , the next major extant bridge constructed in New York City after the Brooklyn Bridge, is a monument in the history of nineteenth-century American engineering . A steel and cast- and wrought-iron arch bridge with arched masonry approaches, the Washington Bridge was constructed over the Harlem River in 1886-1889 to connect the […]
