Architectural Highlights
The Bronx is home to a wide variety of world class architecture. Among the borough's architectural highlights are: the Grand Concourse, one of the great thoroughfares of the City known for its Art Deco/Art Moderne apartment buildings; Woodlawn Cemetery, with mausoleums designed by some of America's most respected architects; Gould Memorial Library and Hall of Fame Terrace by Stanford White, a memorial to Jay Gould that references the Pantheon; and the New York Botanical Garden whose original site was developed with the advice of Calvert Vaux and Samuel Parsons.
161st and 162nd Streets between Sherman and Morris Avenues
Rafael Viñoly, 2001-2007
Photograph: Paul Warchol and Rafael Viñoly Architects
Hall of Fame Terrace and Sedgwick Avenue
Stanford White (McKim, Mead, and White), 1897-99
Photograph: Bronx Community College
Originally W.E. Dodge, Jr. House and Gatehouse 690 W. 247th Street and Independence Avenue
James Renwick, Jr. 1863-64
Photograph: Tom Stoelker
Bronx Zoo / Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx Park south: Astor Court (formerly Baird Court), inside E. Fordham Road entrance Monkey House, 1901; Lion House, 1903; Bird House, 1905; Administration Building, 1910; Elephant House, 1911
Heins and LaFarge (with William Hornaday)
Photograph: Abigail McQuade
Bronx Park North of East Fordham Road at Kazimiroff Boulevard
Site development, 1895 Calvert Vaux and Samuel Parsons, Jr.
Photograph: Mick Hales
Webster Avenue and 233 Street or Jerome Avenue at Bainbridge Avenue
Belmont Chapel (Whitewood plot), 1913, Richard Howland Hunt; Goelet Mausoleum (Oak Hill plot), Russell Mausoleum (Highland plot), Osborn Mausoleum (Brookside plot), Taylor Mausoleum (Walnut plot), 1900-1902, McKim, Mead, and White; Straus Mausoleum (Mysotis plot), 1913, James Gamble Rogers
Photograph: David Bady
Lehman College Art Gallery / Fine Arts Building
Goulden Avenue at Bedford Park Boulevard West
Marcel Breuer, with Robert Gatje and Eduardo Catalano, 1957-60
Photograph:
Lehman College Art Gallery
895 Shore Road Pelham Bay Park
Minard Lefever, architect (attributed)
John Bolton, architect (attributed)
1836-1842; restored by Delano & Aldrich 1914
Photograph:
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
The Bronx Museum of the Arts North Building
Grand Concourse near
165th Street
Bernardo Fort-Brescia and
Laurinda Spear, 2006
Photograph: © Norman McGrath,
courtesy Arquitectonica
Van Cortlandt Park
East side of Broadway between W. 242nd and W. 246th Streets
Architect unknown, 1748-1749
Photograph: Robert Swanson
Harlem River at West 170th Street, Bronx to High Bridge Park, Manhattan
John B. Jervis, Chief Engineer,
1839-1848
Photograph: Lehman College Library/CUNY
Fordham Road between Webster Avenue and Kazimiroff Boulevard
Rose Hill (now Administration Building), 1836-38; Alumni House, 1840; University Church (formerly St. John’s Church), 1845, William Roderigue; St. John’s Hall. ca.
William Roderigue, 1845
Photograph: Tom Stoelker