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The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration

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The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
The Fort William Henry Museum & Restoration
Phone:
+1 518-668-5471

Hours:
Sunday9:30am - 6pm
Monday9:30am - 6pm
Tuesday9:30am - 6pm
Wednesday9:30am - 6pm
Thursday9:30am - 6pm
Friday9:30am - 6pm
Saturday9:30am - 6pm


Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Hudson Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The 67 acres park is situated on a ridge in Upper Manhattan, with a commanding view of the Hudson River, the George Washington Bridge, the New Jersey Palisades, Washington Heights, Inwood, The Bronx and the Harlem River. It extends from Margaret Corbin Circle in the south to Riverside Drive at Dyckman Street in the north, and from Broadway in the east to the Henry Hudson Parkway in the west. The main entrance to the park is at Margaret Corbin Circle, at the intersection of Fort Washington Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard. The area was known by the name Chquaesgeck by the local Lenape tribe, and was called Lange Bergh by Dutch settlers until late in the 17th century. It was the location where the Battle of Fort Washington was fought in the American Revolutionary War, but it was, and remained, sparsely populated. By the turn of the 20th century, it was the location of large country estates. The park was the creation of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who bought up several of the estates beginning in 1917 in order to create it. He engaged the Olmsted Brothers firm – formed by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, step-brothers John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. – to design the park, and gave it to the city in 1931; James W. Dawson created the planting plan. The park was completed in 1935.Rockefeller also bought sculptor George Gray Barnard's collection of medieval art and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which from 1934 to 1939 built The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park to house it. The Cloisters, which was designed by Charles Collens, incorporates several medieval buildings that were purchased in Europe, brought to the United States, and reassembled, often stone by stone. It is home to the Unicorn Tapestries. The park is built on a formation of Manhattan schist and contains interesting examples of igneous intrusions and of glacial striations from the last Ice Age. The lower lying regions to the east and north of the park are built on Inwood marble. The northern boundary of the park is formed by the Dyckman Street Fault.Fort Tryon Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and was designated a New York City Scenic Landmark in 1983.
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