Greenwich Village 1: Washington Square - what’s in the tour:

 

SIGHTS:

Washington Square Park

Washington Square Arch

New York University

The University Building

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Brown Building

The Benedick

Judson Memorial Church

Chess Corner

Hangman’s Elm

29 Washington Square West

Washington Square Hotel

Hotel Earle

MacDougal Alley

8th Street Bookshop

The Marlton Hotel

18 11th Street

Church of the Ascension

Marshall Chess Club

Tile Club

Jefferson Market Library

PEOPLE:

Mark Twain

Walt Whitman

Henry James

Edward Hopper

Thomas Hart Benton

Willie Hutton

Dizzie Gillespie

Miles Davis

Charlie Parker

Charlie Mingus

Jack Kerouac

Woody Guthrie

Pete Seeger

Peter, Paul and Mary

Joan Baez

Bob Dylan

Jane Fonda

Robert Redford

Robert Moses

Stanford White

Eleanor Roosevelt

Jane Jacobs

John Sloan

Marcel DuChamp

Samuel Morse

Samuel Colt

Frances Perkins

Winslow Homer

Evelyn Nesbit

Augustus Saint Gaudens

Abbie Hoffman

Harry Thaw

Marquis de Lafayatte

Lorena Hickok

Gertrude Vanderbilt

Daniel Chester French

Isamy Noguchi

Jackson Pollack

Allen Ginsberg

Ezra Pound

James Joyce

Lillian Gish

Jack Kerouac

Lenny Bruce

Valerie Solanas

Cathy Wilkerson

Julia Garner

President John Tyler

Emily Post

Hedda Nussbaum

Joel Steinberg

Emma Lazarus

Marcel Duchamp

John Vage

Merce Cunningham

Sinclair Lewis


TOPICS:

Little Africa

Bohemian Era

Barefoot in the Park

George Washington at War Statue

George Washington at Peace

Ashcan School

New Bohemia

Morse Code

The Sewer Club

California Dreamin’

The Little Review

Ulysses

Whitney Museum

Students for a Democratic Society

The Weatherman

The Joffrey Ballet

Matteawan State Hospital