REMEMBER: THE GOAT HOUSE ON WEST 120TH STREET

Harlem Bespoke:  We have been going over so the great uptown historic photos from the past that HB posted almost a decade ago a found this photo of a the happy goat house.  Our phone cameras were not that great back then so updated current photos have been added to the story. We now noticed that Teacher's  College can be seen in the background so this is actually more towards the middle of the block at a street intersection that no longer exists.   Below is our original post from 2011 describing the bucolic scenery: 

An archival photo taken circa 1898 shows one of the last country houses that still remained in the Morningside Heights area at West 120th Street when signs of rural life still remained in the area. Goats can be seen lounging on the porch at the address somewhere on the northwest corner of Amsterdam and the photographer probably knew that this was a rare and disappearing scene in the neighborhood around the Columbia University campus.  We remember seeing this image up in the deli on Amsterdam and 120th several years ago but did not quite correlate that the photo basically represented roughly that same block over a century ago.

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