Blockhouse No. 1
Blockhouse No. 1, colloquially known as The Blockhouse, is a small fort in the North Woods section of Central Park, Manhattan, New York City. Finished in 1814, the Blockhouse is the second-oldest structure in the park, after Cleopatra's Needle, and the oldest surviving structure originally built within the park site.Photo: Sylius, Public domain.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: fort in New York City’s Central Park
- Also known as: “Blockhouse” and “The Blockhouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Central Park and Frederick Douglass Circle.
Central Park
Photo: Ed Yourdon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
A vast green swath of open space in the heart of Manhattan, Central Park is a district in its own right, neatly separating the Upper East Side from the Upper West Side, stretching from Midtown at the southern end to Harlem at the north.
Frederick Douglass Circle
Park
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Frederick Douglass Circle is a traffic circle located at the northwest corner of Central Park at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and 110th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Frederick Douglass Circle is situated 870 feet northwest of Blockhouse No. 1.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Museum
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is situated 1 mile south of Blockhouse No. 1.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manhattan Valley and East Harlem.
Manhattan Valley
Neighborhood
Manhattan Valley is a neighborhood in the northern part of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.
East Harlem
Neighborhood
Photo: Diensthuber, CC BY 3.0.
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.
Harlem and Upper Manhattan
Upper Manhattan is a large, relatively under-visited area that ranges from 125th Street to Inwood Hill Park on the west and from 96th Street northward on the east.
Blockhouse No. 1
- Categories: fort, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.79867° or 40° 47′ 55″ northLongitude
-73.95629° or 73° 57′ 23″ westInception
1814Levels
1Open location code
87G8Q2XV+FFOpenStreetMap ID
way 39243913OpenStreetMap feature
building=fortOpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q4927275
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Blockhouse No. 1” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Блокхаўз №1”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المبنى رقم 1”
- German: “Blockhouse No. 1”
- Japanese: “第1ブロックハウス”
- Polish: “Blokhauz № 1”
- Russian: “Блокгауз № 1”
- Ukrainian: “Блокгауз, Нью-Йорк”
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