Part of the interior was built by the Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company . The architect's memorial tomb is part of one wall. As soon as you enter Trinity Cemetery at 153rd Street and Riverside Drive, you find yourself on 24 acres of bucolic beauty. This bluff along the Hudson was once part of the farm of John James Audubon, founder of the wildlife conservation society, and it still gives one a sense of Manhattan's original topography. A suspension bridge over Broadway connected the two halves of the gounds until it was demolished in 1911 to make way for the Chapel.
Trinity is Manhattan's only remaining active cemetery.
The fanciful design includes a corner turret, a Dutch gable, half-moon dormers and granite walls. Audubon Terrace Historic District Broadway between 155th-156th Sts. The site is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Its interior boasts a Guastavino vault. Admission to the museum and the library is free.