
Hispanic Society of America
Art galleryThe Hispanic Society of America is a museum and research library in Washington Heights, Manhattan, founded in 1904 by philanthropist Archer M. Huntington and housed since 1908 in a Beaux-Arts building on Audubon Terrace, a complex built partly on Huntington's former estate. Rather than focusing on Hispanic American culture, its collection centers on the art and history of Spain, Portugal, and their former colonies, including paintings by Velazquez, Goya, and El Greco and the Sorolla Room's more than 200 linear feet of murals depicting Spanish regional life. The library holds roughly 250,000 books, 200,000 documents, and 175,000 photographs, among them an early edition of Don Quijote, and the complex was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2012.





