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Coordinates:40°48′17″N73°56′49″W / 40.80472°N 73.94694°W /40.80472; -73.94694

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Historic district in Manhattan, New York

United States historic place


Mount Morris Park Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Mt Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church
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Location	Bounded roughly by Lenox Ave., Mount Morris Park West, and W. 124th and W. 119th Sts., (original) Roughly bounded by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. and Mt. Morris Park W. from W. 118th to W. 124th Sts., (increase),New York, New York^[1]
Coordinates	40°48′17″N73°56′49″W / 40.80472°N 73.94694°W /40.80472; -73.94694
Built	1878
Architect	Multiple; including in the increase: Angell, Edward L.; Baxter, Charles
Architectural style	Queen Anne, Late 19th- and 20th-century Revivals, Romanesque (original) Beaux Arts, Second Empire, Renaissance (increase)
NRHP reference No.	73001221
Added to NRHP	February 6, 1973 (original) May 24, 1996 (increase)^[1]

Mount Morris Park Historic District is a 16-blockhistoric district in west centralHarlem,Manhattan,New York City. It was designated by theNew York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1971, and is part of the larger Mount Morris Park neighborhood. The boundaries are West 118th and West 124th Streets,Fifth Avenue, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue).^[2]^[3]</ref>^[4]

"Doctor's Row" comprises the nearby stretch of West 122nd Street, Mount Morris Park West andMalcolm X Boulevard; one of the doctors of "Doctor's Row" was the father of the composerRichard Rodgers. Mount Morris Square, the core of the district, is now calledMarcus Garvey Park.

Early history

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Before the European settlements, the rocky hill ofManhattan mica-schist was used by the Native Americans as a lookout station to see over the entire island. During theAmerican Revolutionary War,Hessian soldiers "mounted a battery" at the hill "to command the mouth of the Harlem River".^[5]

Despite the 18th-century local prominence of theGouverneur Morris family,^[6] the name "Mount Morris" for the rocky formation, one of two the Dutch called the Ronde Gerbergte is of 19th-century origin.^[7] Little Hill was leveled when the right-of-way was graded for theNew York and Harlem Railroad, following the present route ofPark Avenue.^[8]

On September 4, 1839, a 20-acre (81,000 m²) residential square was set aside.^[9] The square was relocated from theCommissioners' Plan of 1811, which had planned for a square in the neighborhood, in order to take advantage of the rugged topography that stood squarely in the path ofFifth Avenue. "Mount Morris Square" was officially opened December 1, 1840, but was originally unimproved until 1869, when it was landscaped to a plan by the City surveyorIgnaz Pilat.^[10]

Late 19th- and early 20th-century residentialrow houses and church architecture fill Mount Morris Park Historic District. There are several unaltered streetscapes.Romanesque Revival, neo-Grec, Queen Anne, and 1893'sWorld Columbian Exposition inChicago were among the influences that created the eclectic style from theGilded Age.

Community

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In the 1930s, New York City Parks CommissionmerRobert Moses installed playgrounds and a pool. TheBoys Choir of Harlem was established in the neighborhood in 1968.^[11]

In 1973, the name of the land was changed toMarcus Garvey Park. This was in honor of the internationalPan-African movement leader. In 1973, a part of the current district was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.^[1]

In 1981, the Mount Morris Park Community Association (MMPCIA) was created.^[12] The organization promotes the preservation of buildings such asApollo Theatre,National Black Theatre. It has also supported theSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and theStudio Museum in Harlem. The MMPCIA sponsored annual Historic Neighborhood House Tours, held on the second week of June.^[13]

The association features historicbrownstones and landmark buildings open for the public to view. In 1996, the boundaries of Mount Morris Park District were expanded. They were pushed west to include blocks between Lenox Avenue and Seventh Avenue, and south to include some of West 118th Street.^[1] An extension is contemplated to reflect the area onNational Register of Historic Places.

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^d"National Register Information System".National Register of Historic Places.National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^"Expanding Historic District Boundaries- Mount Morris Park."Historic Districts Council.
^Stephen S. Lash and Ellen F. Rosebrock (December 1971).National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Mount Morris Park Historic District. National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedNovember 11, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
^Peter D. Shaver (April 1996).National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Mount Morris Park Historic District (Boundary Increase). National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedNovember 11, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
^"Snake Hill Tunnel Proposed by Levy".New York Times. January 21, 1936. Retrieved2 May 2015.
^"OnHarlem Heights, Colonel Roger Morris and his wife Mary Philpse, were building Mount Morris, a beautiful Georgian showplace commanding a view down the length of Manhattan," according toBurrows, Edwin G. andWallace, Mike (1999).Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York:Oxford University Press. p. 179.ISBN 0-195-11634-8.. The house exists as theMorris-Jumel Mansion, sometimes also called "Mount Morris".
^James Riker, 1881.Harlem (City of New York): its origin and early annals, quoted in ESanderson, Eric (2009).Mannahatta : a natural history of New York City. New York: Abrams. p. 256.ISBN 978-1-4197-0748-3.OCLC 258332257.
^Sanderson 2009.
^MMPCIA: Mount Morris Park Historic District
^East Harlem: Marcus Garvey Park.
^Petri, E. R."Mt. Morris Park, Manhattan",Forgotten New York, May 3, 2009, accessed March 1, 2014
^Mount Morris Park Community Association
^Mount Morris Park House Tour Showcases Historic Homes Archived 2014-03-07 at theWayback Machine, Jeff Mays, DNA Info, on 2012-05-30.

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Subsections	East Harlem Hamilton Heights Italian Harlem Le Petit Sénégal Manhattanville Sugar Hill
Designated landmarks	369th Regiment Armory Abyssinian Baptist Church Apollo Theater Astor Row Central Park Davis Center Harlem Meer North Woods Dunbar Apartments Graham Court Hamilton Grange National Memorial Harlem River Houses Harlem YMCA Hotel Theresa Langston Hughes House Macombs Dam Bridge Manhattan Avenue–West 120th–123rd Streets Historic District Metropolitan Baptist Church Minton's Playhouse Morningside Park Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Mount Morris Park Historic District NYPL 115th Street Library NYPL Schomburg Library St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church St. Andrew's Church St. Nicholas Historic District Wadleigh High School for Girls Washington Apartments
Other points of interest	Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building All Saints Church ATLAH World Missionary Church Bushman Steps Cotton Club Duke Ellington Circle Frederick Douglass Circle Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts Harlem Children's Zone Harlem Hospital Center The Harlem School of the Arts Lenox Lounge Marcus Garvey Park Harlem Fire Watchtower Morningside Park National Black Theatre New York College of Podiatric Medicine Rucker Park Savoy Ballroom St. Nicholas Houses Studio Museum in Harlem Sylvia's Soul Food
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Cemeteries
African Burial Ground National Monument First Shearith Israel Graveyard Harlem African Burial Ground New York City Marble Cemetery New York Marble Cemetery Trinity Church Cemetery

Clubhouses

Commercial buildings

Office buildings	1 Broadway 1 Hanover Square 1 Wall Street Court 108 Leonard 116 John Street 23 Wall Street 254–260 Canal Street 330 West 42nd Street 361 Broadway 40 Wall Street 48 Wall Street 488 Madison Avenue 49 Chambers 56 Pine Street 63 Wall Street 90 West Street American Radiator Building Bayard–Condict Building Bell Laboratories Building Broad Exchange Building Candler Building Cary Building Century Building Chamber of Commerce Building Chanin Building Chrysler Building Church Missions House Corbin Building Daily News Building Decker Building Empire Building Empire State Building Equitable Building Film Center Building Flatiron Building Fred F. French Building General Electric Building House of the New York City Bar Association Lee, Higginson & Company Bank Building Lever House Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower New York County Lawyers' Association Building New York Evening Post Building New York Life Building Old New York Evening Post Building Park Row Building Puck Building Rockefeller Center Schermerhorn Row Block Scribner Building Seagram Building W New York Union Square Woolworth Building
Drinking establishments	Fraunces Tavern Julius Minton's Playhouse Stonewall Inn
Stores, other commercial	170–176 John Street 280 Broadway 287 Broadway 452 Fifth Avenue 55 Wall Street 75 Murray Street American Bank Note Company Building American Stock Exchange Building Apple Bank Building Bank of the Metropolis Barclay–Vesey Building Bowery Savings Bank Building Chelsea Market David S. Brown Store De Vinne Press Building E. V. Haughwout Building Greenwich Savings Bank Building Kitchen, Montross & Wilcox Store Lincoln Building Macy's Herald Square Metropolitan Savings Bank Building Mount Morris Bank Building New York Amsterdam News Building New York Savings Bank Building New York Stock Exchange Building Park and Tilford Building R. C. Williams Warehouse Robbins & Appleton Building Schermerhorn Building Sheffield Farms Stable Tiffany and Company Building United Charities Building Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart

Educational buildings

Colleges and schools	Barnard Hall Brown Building City College Quadrangle Claremont Riding Academy Cooper Union Earl Hall Founder's Hall Fourteenth Ward Industrial School Marymount School of New York Milbank, Brinckerhoff, and Fiske Halls New York School of Applied Design for Women P.S. 9 P.S. 135 P.S. 157 Philosophy Hall Pupin Hall St. Walburga's Academy Union Theological Seminary
Libraries	115th Street Library General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York Hamilton Grange Library Jefferson Market Library Low Memorial Library Morgan Library & Museum New York Public Library Main Branch New York Society Library Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Yorkville Library

Government buildings

Post office buildings	Canal Street Station Church Street Station Cooper Station Inwood Station James A. Farley Building Knickerbocker Station Lenox Hill Station Madison Square Station Old Chelsea Station
Courthouse	Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State Harlem Courthouse Surrogate's Courthouse Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse Tweed Courthouse
Other governmental	1st Police Precinct Station House 240 Centre Street Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Blackwell Island Light Block House New York City Hall City Pier A Federal Hall Federal Office Building Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building Firehouse, Engine Company 31 Firehouse, Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 9 Gracie Mansion Harlem Fire Watchtower Little Red Lighthouse Manhattan Municipal Building Municipal Asphalt Plant

Hospital buildings
City Hospital Gouverneur Health Mount Sinai Morningside The Octagon Smallpox Hospital Society for the Lying-In Hospital Strecker Memorial Laboratory

Hotel buildings
Barbizon 63 The Chatwal New York George Washington Hotel Gilsey House Grand Hotel Hotel Albert Hotel Chelsea Hotel Gerard Hotel Seville NoMad Hotel Theresa The Knickerbocker Hotel Martinique Hotel Plaza Hotel Times Square Hotel Webster Hotel Westchester House

Military facilities
69th Regiment Armory 369th Regiment Armory Castle Clinton Castle Williams First Battery Armory Fort Jay Fort Washington Avenue Armory Park Avenue Armory Fort Washington

Museums and memorials

Parks and recreation
Asser Levy Recreation Center Bowling Green Bryant Park Central Park Duffy Square Fort Tryon Park Governors Island National Monument Greenacre Park Marcus Garvey Park Riverside Park Statue of Liberty National Monument Union Square Verdi Square

Religious buildings

Churches

Synagogues

Residential buildings

Houses

Apartments,
other residential

Theatres
Apollo Theater Beacon Theatre Bouwerie Lane Theatre Carnegie Hall Ed Sullivan Theater Hudson Theatre New Amsterdam Theatre New York City Center The Public Theater Radio City Music Hall Samuel J. Friedman Theatre The Town Hall Village East by Angelika

Transportation

Bridges and tunnels	Brooklyn Bridge High Bridge Holland Tunnel Joralemon Street Tunnel Manhattan Bridge New York Central Railroad 69th Street Transfer Bridge Park Avenue Viaduct Queensboro Bridge Washington Bridge
Railway andsubway stations	14th Street–Union Square 28th Street 28th Street 33rd Street 59th Street–Columbus Circle 72nd Street 79th Street 86th Street Cathedral Parkway–110th Street 116th Street–Columbia University 125th Street 145th Street 168th Street 181st Street 181st Street 190th Street Astor Place Bleecker Street Bowling Green Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street Chambers Street City Hall Dyckman Street Grand Central Terminal Times Square–42nd Street Wall Street West Fourth Street–Washington Square
Substations	Dyckman-Hillside Substation Substation 7 Substation 219 Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Ships	Admiral Dewey Ambrose Circle Line X Frying Pan Intrepid John J. Harvey Lettie G. Howard Lilac Shearwater W. O. Decker Wavertree Yankee
Others	Battery Maritime Building City Pier A Pier 57

Others
Columbus Monument Croton Aqueduct Gate House Giuseppe Verdi Monument Space ShuttleEnterprise

Former
Florence Mills House

See also:National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan (Islands,Below 14th St.,14th–59th Sts.,59th–110th Sts.,Above 110th St.) andList of National Historic Landmarks in New York City
Note: National Historic Landmarks are not listed separately.

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