Category:454 Fort Washington Avenue

English: 454 Fort Washington Avenue, located on the corner of 181st Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built c.1920 and was designed by Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker. The apartment building is adorned with multiple copies of three different architectural grotesques, as well as other faces.

Before the building of The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, sculptor George Gray Barnard kept his collection of medieval art in a museum also called "The Cloisters" in a building at 454 Fort Washington Avenue, however this is described in numerous sources as being at 189th Street, and not 181st Street. Barnard's collection was purchased by John D. Rockefeller and given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to become the core of the collection in The Cloisters. (Sources: NYC GIS map, Columbia U. NY Real Estate Brochure Collection, N.E.A. Bulletin 1914, an example of "The Cloisters" at 454 Fort Washington at 189th Street)