Archer M. Huntington founded the Hispanic Society on May 18, 1904 on Audubon Terrace in New York City, and Charles Pratt Huntington designed the main building, dated 1907 to 1908. It is a two-story Renaissance Revival building with neoclassical motifs and Spanish-influenced interiors. The central court is about 98 by 40 feet and 35 feet high, modeled on a Spanish patio. Erik Strindberg added the east wing in 1921, and H. Brooks Price designed the library, which opened in 1930.
Anna Hyatt Huntington made the lions at the entrance, and Berthold Nebel made the relief doors, completed in 1939. The Sorolla Room holds Joaquín Sorolla's Vision of Spain, fourteen large paintings.
It is a museum and research library on Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Admission is free.
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