Wash Heights Museum Presents Photo Exhibit About The Neighborhood

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — The Jumel Terrace Historic District is a small enclave of 50 or so residential wood and brick rowhouses built between 1890 and 1902 in Washington Heights.

The district was designated as a New York City landmark in 1970, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and now the district's centerpiece — the Morris-Jumel Mansion museum — is presenting a new exhibition featuring black and white film portraits of the residents and architecture within the uptown historic district.

The area covers only a few square blocks, stretching from West 160th to West 162nd Streets between Edgecombe and St. Nicholas Avenues.

The new exhibit at the Morris-Jumel Mansion museum, "History Now," features 20 photographs, 15 contemporary digitally-printed portraits and select photographs from a family photo album dating from 1901 of the Ettlinger Family, who lived on 162nd Street.

The exhibit's artist is Rose Deler, who is an Upper Manhattan native.

"In executing this project, Deler was inspired by the neighborhood’s rich history as a residential area and she began reflecting on the numerous families who have lived here since the Ettlinger’s time," reads a description of the exhibit on the museum's website. "Deler states: 'History Now is my preservationist effort. In one hundred years, we will be the faces of our neighborhood's past.'”

The exhibit is open Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. through April 3.

The Morris-Jumel Mansion museum is located at 65 Jumel Terrace.

You can learn more about the "History Now" exhibit on the museum's website.