Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 75001207 Opened 1928 | Built 1928 Designated NHL May 15, 1975 Added to NRHP 15 May 1975 | |
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Similar Dunbar Apartments, Duke Ellington House, New York City Police Museum, Bryant Park, Marcus Garvey Park | ||
The Matthew Henson Residence is where Matthew Henson, the African American polar explorer, lived from 1929 until his death in 1955. Largely forgotten, he was arguably the first man to reach the North Pole in 1909, as he was assigned the task of breaking trail in explorer Robert Peary's expedition. That argument is somewhat tenuous, in part because the expedition did not have the means to exactly determine the location of the North Pole and its having reached the North Pole was a matter of declaration.
His residence was apartment 3F within the 246 W. 150th Street building, which is part of the Dunbar Apartments, a NRHP-listed building. His residence was named a National Historic Landmark in 1975.
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