AUDUBON PARK AND AUDUBON TERRACE MUSEUM COMPLEX
Audubon Park and the Audubon Terrace Museum Complex were named for naturalist John James Audubon who had his home on a 30-acre tract of land that extended from 155th Street to 158th Street Amsterdam Avenue to the Hudson River in the Washington Heights community of Manhattan. The Audubon Terrace Museum Complex was conceived by Archer M. Huntington in the first decade of the 20th Century to act as a center for the cultural and literary world. Community District 12 Historian James Renner will conduct a tour of the area describing the local historical highlights and the apartment buildings of Audubon Park.
Mr. Renner is presently a member of the following organizations; The Harlem and the Heights Historical Society, The American Association of State and Local History, The Organization of American Historians and the Association of Public Historians of New York State. Mr. Renner is a licensed Sightseeing Guide in the City of New York and is a member of the Guides Association of New York City.
Mr. Renner is also an accomplished author of articles that represent a historical nature and are a written interpretation that correspond to his photographic collection which combines historic and contemporary subjects pertaining to Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill. These have appeared in community newspapers such as; The Washington Heights Citizen and the Inwood News, The Manhattan Heights Forum, the Washington Heights and Inwood Report and the Manhattan Times. These historical articles also appear on the Internet at www.washington-heights.us/history. Mr. Renner has also published a book in 2007 called “Washington Heights, Inwood and Marble Hill” released by Arcadia Publishing.
The tour will begin at 12:00 Noon on Sunday August 24, 2008. Meet at the Ilka Tanya Payan Triangle at 157th Street and Broadway. The cost of the tour will be $15 per person, $10 for seniors and students.
Audubon Park and the Audubon Terrace Museum Complex is accessible by mass transit. The #1 train stops at 157th and Broadway. Buses to the area include the BX6, M4 and M5 stop on 157th Street and Broadway and M100 and M101 buses stop on Amsterdam Avenue and 157th Street.
Posted on August 16, 2008 by D. Bell