Photograph of Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist — Photograph by karel.teifer, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, The

Built in 1932 (Art Deco architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights is a historic Reform Jewish synagogue located at 551 Fort Washington Avenue, on the corner of 185th Street, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. The domed Art Deco style building was built as a church for the Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1932 and converted to a synagogue in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 601 National Register listings published here for New York County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1932, Art Deco architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 551 Ft. Washington Ave., Manhattan, 12885
When was it listed? August 2011
Category. building
When was it built? 1932
Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
National Register reference number. 11000620 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1895 USGS North Creek quadrangle1:62500
1897 USGS North Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1950 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS North Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Glens Falls quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Johnsburg quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1986 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Ticonderoga quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	369th Regiment Armory	2.6 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000620 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New York County	All 601 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.