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Constructed as a Victorian folly; smaller scale, largely nonfunctional buildings designed to enhance the natural landscape, Belvedere Castle in the center of Central Park does just that.

Alexander Hamilton’s home, the only house he was ever known to have owned, sits in the center of Hamilton Heights in Harlem and has been relocated to its third and final location.

The Ottendorfer Library was a gift to the city of New York, as was its adjoining health clinic, the Stuyvesant Polyclinic, from Anna and Oswald Ottendorfer, German immigrants, newspaper publishers, and philanthropists.

In 1654 Thomas Pell, an English physician living in Connecticut, made a deal with the Siwanoy Indians and ended up with 9,166 acres that included what is now known as Pelham.

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the Hamilton Heights Historic District of Harlem is a work of architectural recycling that was pieced together from three different structures, only one of which was originally a church.

With all the fuss being kicked up about horse-drawn carriages in Midtown, it may be hard to believe that in the late 1800s it was recorded that there were 73,746 horses in New York City.

The Citizen’s Savings Bank at the corner of the Bowery and Canal and anchoring the Manhattan Bridge was recently given landmark status by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Neatly tucked in between the old brick buildings on the north side of the street east of Lafayette is 40 Bond.

High Bridge Water Tower West 174th Street at Amsterdam Avenue, Architect: John B. Jervis, Year built: 1872

Built on a high peak in what is now Washington Heights, the Morris-Jumel Mansion (MJM), Manhattan’s oldest surviving house, at one time served as a military base for the man the neighborhood is now named for.