When passing by the side street of West 150th and Convent Avenue, one might find a unique parking garage with a historic past in this section of Hamilton Heights. The rather tall, four story building at number 457-459 West 150th Street is currently a parking garage but upon closer inspections one will find a pair of carved horse heads poking out of the front facade. The old horse stable has DOB records dating back to 1910 but we imagine that the building might be older considering the neighborhood's pastoral past. A garage would seem like the next best thing for the original stables seeing that cars took over the traditional horse role as the public's choice for transportation by the mid 20th century. The nearest subway to this location is the A,B,C,D train at 145th Street. Photos by Ulysses
When passing by the side street of West 150th and Convent Avenue, one might find a unique parking garage with a historic past in this section of Hamilton Heights. The rather tall, four story building at number 457-459 West 150th Street is currently a parking garage but upon closer inspections one will find a pair of carved horse heads poking out of the front facade. The old horse stable has DOB records dating back to 1910 but we imagine that the building might be older considering the neighborhood's pastoral past. A garage would seem like the next best thing for the original stables seeing that cars took over the traditional horse role as the public's choice for transportation by the mid 20th century. The nearest subway to this location is the A,B,C,D train at 145th Street. Photos by Ulysses
I walk by this nearly every day and never noticed the horse heads!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool building.
ReplyDeleteFarm horses would have been stabled on their owners’ properties. These big-ish horse buildings were for hansom cab horses, dray horses, horses who pulled omnibuses and the like.
ReplyDeleteThere’s a section of the lower West 20s/Upper Teens with many such buildings, some smaller.
And don’t forget that quaint, highly prized mews houses were originally stables.