The West End Presbyterian Church is a beautiful church on West 105th Street that was built in 1891- that means it is 130 years old! This church was built in the Romanesque Revival architecture style, which means it has lots of rounded arches, towers, rough stone on the outside, and small windows inside those thick walls. It has light-yellow, speckled brick with matching bands of decorated terra-cotta. 

Amsterdam Houses are a complex of public housing buildings around Amsterdam Avenue and West 61st Street.  13 buildings make up this complex, and they were desined by a series of prestigious architects. They were built starting in 1947, and the mostly low-rise buildings and tree-covered grounds stand in contrast to later tower-in-the-park developments. Amsterdam Houses exemplifies an early effort by the New York City Housing Authority to ensure racial and ethnic diversity in one of its projects.

This high school was built from 1969-1975 on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets. It has a modern architectural style, with lots of right angles, glass, steel and concrete on the facade, or exterior. Those features give it a very industrial, stronghold-like feeling. It has remained a poised, quiet sentinel on this street for many years.

This school on West 109th Street is a beautiful example of French Renaissance Rivial architecture, with dormer windows, a steep roof, turrets, and more decorations. It was built in 1900, meaning it is more than 120 years old! At the time, the Superintendent of School Buildings, C.B.J. Snyder, liked schools to be shaped like an H, with courtyards and lots of light. The students and neighbors of this school call it “The Palace School!”

Built in 1892, these buildings lie on West 89th Street. These handsome buildings, originally built as stables, evoke the days when New Yorkers travelled by horse and carriage. They are in a Romanesque Revival style, so look for rounded arches and big  brick decorations on the outside. When cars were invented and people stopped using horses and carriages to get around, they were turned into garages before becoming residential. 

Lincoln Center, built in 1962, is America’s first cultural center with multiple arts institutions grouped together in a city, a monument to the  importance of the arts in everyday life. The collection of buildings, interiors, landscapes and art in a single locations is unparalleled.  Strong geometric shapes define the architecture and landscape. Many world famous artists and architects worked together to build this center.

Ivy Court was built in 1903, and was advertised in the New York Times as “all light: 7 rooms furnished or unfurnished, conceded to be the finest apartments on the West Side.” They buildings are an American Colonial architecture style with French Beax Arts features, so look for white limstone, red bricks,  and minimal decorations on the outside.