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Rhinecliff 788 Riverside Drive Schwartz & Gross Designed by 1910-11 Audubon Park Historic District The 11-story Rhinecliff continues the cornice line of its southern neighbor, the Vauxhall, complementing it with a Beaux-Arts façade carried out in granite, light brick and terra cotta. The elaborate roofline is decorated with oversized brackets, cartouches and a cornice with arched pediments. One of the more expensive buildings constructed in the neighborhood, the Rhinecliff featured suites of four to six rooms, as well as duplexes of eight to nine rooms equipped with separate entrances for servants. The Rhinecliff shares its name with a town in the Hudson Valley, a popular summer destination in the 19th century. More recently, the Rhinecliff was featured in the 1989 filming of the teleplay, The Hollow Boy.
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"Swing," was a reinforced concrete sculpture by Clement Meadmore. Its size of twelve feet in height, eighteen feet in width, and twelve feet in width is meant to negotiate between its urban setting and the human scale. This sculpture was commissioned by the Public Arts Council's Neighborhood Environmental Sculpture Program (NESP) in 1972. The program sought to bring works of public art to the Inwood and Washington Heights as selected by the residents of each neighborhood. Meadmore's "Swing," is one of the five pieces chosen by a panel of art professionals and city-wide ballot, supplemented by a mobile exhibition and art-education workshops. The program had initially planned for ten permanent structures to be installed, however, various constraints cut the final roster in half, and determined the installations temporary. NESP aimed to encourage local determination from Inwood and Washington Heights, but the selection and feedback process ultimately constrained the very voices they wanted to empower. Meadmore's "Swing" was the first of the five public sculptures to be installed. An observation came later, stating that if the sculpture had been meant as a play-piece, a mat should be installed underneath it to prevent climbing children from hurting themselves. This comment foreshadowed the sculpture's ultimate removal.
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American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1930. Completed in 1930, the annex building for the Academy was designed by member Cass Gilbert. The building included a 730-seat auditorium and sky-lit exhibition gallery. Both this structure and the original Academy building next door were designed in an Italian Renaissance style with imposing double bronze doors.
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church, 1924. Designed by Charles P. Huntington, the original structure was completed in 1912 with a staircase entrance to 156th Street. In 1924, a new facade by Lawrence G. White — son of Stanford White — extended the facade to street level and moved the entrance staircase to the building’s interior.

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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

Buildings, Broadway & 155th to 156th Sts. An aerial view of the entrance to the Church of Our Lady of Esperanza.
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Academy of Arts and Letters

155th Street and Broadway. Academy of Arts and Letters
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

624 West 156th Street. Church of Our Lady of Esperanza
Our Lady of Esperanza Church image

Our Lady of Esperanza Church

624 West 156th Street. Church of Our Lady of Esperanza
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788 Riverside Drive

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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

624 West 156th Street. Church of Our Lady of Esperanza
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

West 156th Street. Church of Our Lady of Esperanza, entrance lobby.
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

West 157th Street. Our Lady of Esperanza.
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

624 West 156th Street. Spanish church \[Church of Our Lady of Esperanza], entrance.
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

West 156th Street. Church of Our Lady of Esperanza, lobby and baptistry.
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

West 156th Street. Church of Our Lady of Esperanza, general view windows at entrance, interior.
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Our Lady of Esperanza Church

624 West 156th Street. Spanish church \[Church of Our Lady of Esperanza].
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632 West 156th Street

628 West 156th Street. American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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788 Riverside Drive

\["Swing" reinforced concrete sculpture.]
788 Riverside Drive image

788 Riverside Drive

\["Swing" reinforced concrete sculpture.]
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Academy of Arts and Letters

American Geographical Society and Indian Museum, New York
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788 Riverside Drive

Rhinecleff
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