Audubon Terrace, also known as the Audubon Terrace Historic District, is a landmark complex of eight early-20th century Beaux Arts/American Renaissance buildings located on the west side of Broadway, bounded by West 155th and West 156th Streets, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan, New York City, United States. Home to several cultural institutions, the architecturally complementary buildings, which take up most of a city block, are arranged in two parallel rows facing each other across a common plaza. The complex is directly across 155th Street from Trinity Church Cemetery.
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A - formerly American Geographical Society, now Boricua College B - Hispanic Society Library C - Church of Our Lady of Esperanza D - American Academy of Arts and Letters Auditorium E - American Academy of Arts and Letters (AAA&L) F - New entrance link G - formerly American Numismatic Society, now AAA&L Annex H - Hispanic Society of America I - formerly Museum of the American Indian, now Hispanic Society
155th Street is a crosstown street separating the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is the northernmost of the 155 crosstown streets mapped out in the Commissioner's Plan of 1811 that established the numbered street grid in Manhattan.
Western end, high portion
Eastern viaduct, pictured in 1994
