Academy of Mount St. Ursula

The Academy of Mount St. Ursula is a Catholic girls' college preparatory school founded in 1855 as a part of the Monastery of St. Ursula in the town of Morrisania.

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Type: School
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: private school in Bronx, New York, USA
Also known as: “Academy of Mount Saint Ursula” and “Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School”
Address: 330 Bedford Park Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: New York Botanical Garden and Botanical Garden station.

New York Botanical Garden

Garden

Photo: Anthony22, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The New York Botanical Garden is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A.

Botanical Garden station

Railway station

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Botanical Garden station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City. Botanical Garden station is situated 1,400 feet east of Academy of Mount St. Ursula.

LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Library

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The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is located at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York City. Founded in 1899 and renamed in the 1990s for LuEsther Mertz, it is the United States' largest botanical research library, and the first library whose collection focused exclusively on botany. LuEsther T. Mertz Library is situated 2,300 feet east of Academy of Mount St. Ursula.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedford Park and Norwood.

Bedford Park

Neighborhood

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Bedford Park is a residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City, adjacent to the New York Botanical Garden. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are: Mosholu Parkway to the north, Webster Avenue to the east, East 196th Street to the south, and Jerome Avenue to the west.

Norwood

Neighborhood

Norwood, also known as Bainbridge, is a residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City, U.S. It is bound by Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery to the north, the Bronx River to the east, and Mosholu Parkway to the southwest.

Kingsbridge Heights

Neighborhood

Kingsbridge Heights is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the northwest Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries are Van Cortlandt Park to the north, Jerome Avenue to the east, Kingsbridge Road to the south, and the Major Deegan Expressway to the west.

Academy of Mount St. Ursula

Categories: high school and education
Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.8687° or 40° 52′ 7″ north

Longitude

-73.88651° or 73° 53′ 12″ west

Established

1855

Operator

Academy of Mount Saint Ursula

Named after

Saint Ursula

Open location code

87G8V497+F9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 518708277

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=school

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=roman_catholic

Wikidata ID

Q4671495

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In Other Languages

From French to Swedish—“Academy of Mount St. Ursula” goes by many names.

French: “Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School”
Swedish: “Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School”

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Highlights: FDNY Engine 79/Ladder 37/Battalion 27 and Anjuman Hefazatul Islam.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Bainbridge Avenue & East 198th Street and Met.

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