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The Washington Heights Historic District is located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The historic district includes 347 contributing properties that date from 1891-1950. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
The process underlying this segregation is exemplified in the history of one of Washington Heights' most famous apartment buildings: 555 Edgecombe Avenue. Built in 1914, the fourteen-story building rented to various relatively affluent White people until 1939, when the owner cancelled all the tenants' leases and began renting exclusively to ...
The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City.The museum, situated in Fort Tryon Park, specializes in European medieval art and architecture, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
The mansion is located at 65 Jumel Terrace [8] in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. [2] [9] The house is in Roger Morris Park, within the boundaries of the Jumel Terrace Historic District, but is landmarked separately from the historic district. [10]
The Jumel Terrace Historic District is a small New York City and national historic district located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.It consists of 50 residential rowhouses built between 1890 and 1902, and one apartment building constructed in 1909, as the heirs of Eliza Jumel sold off the land of the former Roger Morris estate. [2]
555 Edgecombe Avenue is at the southwest corner of Edgecombe Avenue and 160th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [6] [7] [8] The trapezoidal land lot covers 13,926 square feet (1,294 m 2), with a frontage of 102.58 feet (31.27 m) and a depth of 150.42 feet (45.85 m). [8]
Washington Heights is also home to the city's only remaining independently owned children's bookstore — Rainbow Booksellers at 5704 W. Vliet St. The side of the building features a mural called ...
The United Palace (originally Loew's 175th Street Theatre) is a theater at 4140 Broadway in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.The theater, occupying a full city block bounded by Broadway, Wadsworth Avenue, and West 175th and 176th Streets, functions both as a spiritual center and as a nonprofit cultural and performing arts center.