…accused White of ruining Nesbit, and he may have even focused his attention on her because of her previous relationship with White. Thaw believed White had hired people to kill…
Read More…as Beaux Arts architect Stanford White and outsider chronicler Diane Arbus lived next door to each other in the heart of the district. Stanford White (l.), Daine Arbus Stanford White…
Read More…unassuming buildings with unexpected history. Yet how unusual to see them hired to do repair work on a building after it suffered fire damage. Stanford White was listed as project…
Read MoreOn January 30, 1968, the Velvet Underground released their second studio album, White Light/White Heat. Following the band’s first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, released in 1967, the band…
Read More…couple more successful submissions by White to the magazine, its literary editor, Katharine Angell recommended to editor-in-chief and founder Harold Ross that White be hired as a staff writer. White…
Read MoreWhite Horse Tavern and Dylan Thomas. Photo courtesy of newyork.com. On Wednesday, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will be hosting a walking tour on Dylan Thomas that will culminate…
Read MoreInez Milholland, wearing a white cape while seated on white horse, at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913. (Credit: F A Archive/REX/Shutterstock) The 19th Amendment to…
Read More101-103 Thompson Street Thinking of white glazed brick buildings can conjure images of boxy post-war high rises on the Upper East Side, but almost fifty years before they came into…
Read More…Museum. But it used to have a home in the White House. Here’s the story of how Christopher Street and Greenwich Village made it into the nation’s First Home. In 1933,…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read MorePlan would likely only create 1/5 of projected Affordable Housing, push out Asian American and lower income residents would likely destroy more Affordable Housing than it creates….
Read More…1906 after Pittsburgh millionaire Henry Thaw shot society starchitect Stanford White in front of a crowd of hundreds while dining on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden (then located on…
Read More…completed in 1900 and designed by Stanford White of the firm of McKim, Mead, and White, which also designed Columbia University and Penn Station, among many other great New York…
Read More…market-rate units, this will result in buildings which are 70% white, 10.8% Asian, 5% Hispanic and 9.8% black – a higher percentage white and black than the 7 census tracts…
Read MoreThe New York Public Library Tompkins Square Branch, courtesy of HDC As part of our continuing Landmarks50 celebration, and in honor of Stanford White’s birthday today (he would be a…
Read More…an all-white jury. Those sentences had resulted from bloody riots in Arkansas in 1919 precipitated by a white mob attacking a mass meeting of black farmers trying to organize a…
Read More…the bill and brought on Stanford White, of the famous firm of McKim, Mead, and White, to create the design. The arch spanned 5th Avenue just north of Washington Square….
Read More…arch in the European tradition. He convinced his well-heeled neighbors to help foot the bill, and brought on Stanford White, of the renowned firm of McKim, Mead, and White, to…
Read More…that White began writing for the recently founded New Yorker; he became a regular contributor in 1927. White also wrote for Harper’s Magazine, publishing poetry and prose before he began writing for…
Read More…Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). 28. E.B. White, 16 East 8th Street and 112 West 13th Street Elwyn Brooks White famed author of the children’s novels Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web lived in Greenwich Village…
Read More…American men sentenced to death and 67 to long prison terms by an all-white jury. Those sentences had resulted from bloody riots in Arkansas in 1919 precipitated by a white mob…
Read More…square, began campaigning to erect a temporary triumphal arch in the European tradition. He convinced his well-heeled neighbors to help foot the bill, and brought on Stanford White of the…
Read More…all men are created equal, so all white and black men could vote, right? Unfortunately, no. Not even all white men could vote. It depended on the state, but the…
Read More…6. White Horse Tavern, 567 Hudson Street Via Flickr cc While perhaps most famous as a hang-out for the great literary minds of the mid-20th century, including Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin,…
Read More…market rate units, this will result in buildings which are 70% white, 10.8% Asian, 5% Hispanic and 9.8% black – a higher percentage white and black than the 7 census…
Read More…immigrant community in Greenwich Village include our Lady of Guadalupe Church and “La Nacional,” the Spanish Benevolent Society of New York, located on West 14th Street. 6. White Horse Tavern,…
Read More…White Ovington, William English Walling, Bishop Alexander Walters, Rev. William Henry Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells, among others, the new organization’s first public meeting was held a few…
Read More…Broadway musical called John Henry alongside fellow activists Paul Robeson and Josh White. White put together a group called “Josh White and the Carolinians” and asked Rustin to be a…
Read More…white immigrant family, she [Larsen] had no entrée into the world of the blues or of the black church. If she could never be white like her mother and sister,…
Read More…limestone, and terra-cotta façade of Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South, designed by Stanford White, of McKim, Mead, & White and completed in 1893, remains defiantly and elegantly…
Read More…1839-1846. The listing also details a remodeling of the interior from 1885-1889, undertaken by Stanford White of McKim, Mead, & White. This remodeling lightened the space considerably, removing galleries on…
Read More…Square Arch was dedicated. The above image shows what the arch looked like that year. Designed by Stanford White of McKim, Meade & White, the arch has become one of…
Read More…Gothic Revival style, with an interior remodeled by Stanford White from 1885-89. Both churches are active and flourishing today. If you are interested in learning more about GVSHP’s archive and…
Read More…for AIDS patients. The church sanctuary (designed by Stanford White), campanile tower, and Judson Hall were designated landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966 and added…
Read More…the 1906 murder of architect Stanford White, who had an affair with his wife, chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit (that crime was immortalized in E.L. Doctorow’s novel “Ragtime”). Strikers from the…
Read More…Street. ca. 2011 image via Wikipedia. The lot on Houston Street is now the site of the Cable Building. Built 1892-94, the Cable Building was designed by Stanford White of…
Read More…his father. Fish worked for the Illinois Central Railroad until 1906. He had a large home at 19 Gramercy Park South, with an addition designed by Stanford White, and later…
Read More…Stanford White of McKim Mead & White considerably lightened the interior space, removing galleries on the north and south sides, adding stained-glass windows, and installing a mural called “The Ascension…
Read More…which investigated the scandalous murder of architect Stanford White (East Villager and architect of a firm that designed some of our neighborhoods’ finest structures), took place at the Jefferson Market…
Read More…the Schomburg Center (video) (event description) Book Talk: Stanford White in Detail Focusing on White’s iconic designs and builds, no one could resist the decorative facades and interiors! (video) (event…
Read More…by renowned architect Stanford White and built in 1890-1892. It replaced an earlier, temporary privately-funded arch, made of plaster and wood, that was erected in 1889 to commemorate the centenary of…
Read More…Arch. www.washingtonsquarenyc.org According to the New York City Parks Department, the “marble Washington Arch, designed by noted architect Stanford White, was built between 1890-1892 and replaced a wooden arch erected…
Read More…suffragists in white and a baby carriage in the center. The estimated participation in the spring demonstration was about 10,000 to 15,000 marchers. 1912 Suffrage Parade marching up Fifth Avenue…
Read More…discrimination. While a former slave became a sexton and Varick rose to the level of deacon, the white-run congregation forced the black congregants to the back of the church. As…
Read More…ale. You may order it either dark or light. White Horse Tavern 567 Hudson Street The White Horse Tavern © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah This West Village haunt opened…
Read More…latter group consisted of both prominent African-American institutions and individuals (mostly associated with churches) who organized economically, politically, and socially against slavery, and whites who ranged from peaceful Quaker opponents…
Read More…(October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014) explosive Obie-winning play whose revelations on generational violent racism touched the exposed nerves of black and white audiences alike. One night, after giving…
Read More…Doors playing with a Joshua Light Show display behind them. Photo care of Joshua White It was a place to catch an amazing concert: the early show was rocking, the…
Read More…landscape. The World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago unleashed the “City Beautiful” or “White City” movement in America, and suddenly grand, neo-Classical or Beaux Arts buildings made of crisp…
Read More…While many black congregations were moving to and growing in Harlem at this time, most purchased buildings formerly used by white congregations that had moved out of the neighborhood, as…
Read More…educational tool and classic graphic novel. 112 West 13th Street, E.B. White’s first home in the Village 5. E.B. White – Charlotte’s Web E.B. White is most popularly known for…
Read More…large mid-century white-brick apartment building at 2 Fifth Avenue, just north Washington Square Park. Although decidedly more modern than the historic nineteenth century townhouses in the area, the application to…
Read More…of these critics, by the way, seemed to object to those census tracts also pulling in additional adjacent blocks and buildings in high-income and predominantly white areas of Greenwich Village,…
Read More…Spain Center was inaugurated. It promised to be the most comprehensive university-based resource of its sort. Housed in Judson Hall, the Washington Square Park landmark building designed by Stanford White,…
Read More…designed by Upjohn in 1841 that features a magnificent 1880’s interior designed by Stanford White. You can read the all about the history of the church in the State &…
Read More…of Washington’s inauguration, which took place at Federal Hall here in New York when our city was, briefly, the nation’s capitol. The architect Stanford White modeled both structures on the…
Read More…the Open Door”. Its interior was remodeled by Stanford White between 1885 and 1888. The church is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969. Richard Upjohn, circa…
Read More…designed by Stanford White, was erected in 1892.” Stereographs are cards that contain two almost identical images side by side. When you view them through a device called a stereoscope,…
Read More…that features a magnificent 1880’s interior designed by Stanford White. You can read the all about the history of the church in the State & National Register report. St. Mark’s…
Read More…School artist Thomas Moran; and architect Stanford White. But that’s not all there is to celebrate today. The building is not only a historic cross-section of Fifth Avenue history and…
Read More…century to the striking contemporary structures.Highlights also include works by distinguished architects such as Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary leaders like Rem Koolhaas and…
Read More…5th Ave highlighted on the 1891 Bromley Map. Here, Tesla experimented with wireless lighting, giving demonstrations to friends including Mark Twain and architect Stanford White, who would later design Tesla’s…
Read More…were going to appeal it. We don’t get credit for it. Spatt was also involved in saving the Villard houses, designed by Stanford White, and gained private and public funding…
Read More…was such a big hit with New Yorkers there was an almost immediate push to make a permanent version. The Tuckahoe marble arch we see today was designed by Stanford…
Read More…Stanford White. We still have many buildings which don’t share the privilege of landmarks protections, although they are equally deserving. To learn more about our current advocacy campaigns, click HERE….
Read More…was majority white, and majority male. Of the twenty-five artists who participated in the sessions, only three were women. Along with counterparts Louise Bourgeois, the French-American artist best known for…
Read More…1890 As explained in the designation report: “The blocks that comprise the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District were inhabited by a mix of black and white residents by the end of the…
Read More…people of African descent was seized by wealthy white landowners who turned these former free black settlements into retreats, farms, and plantations. Mother AME Zion; courtesy of NYC AGO 2. Mother…
Read More…societies specifically, reinforcing these sites as political places. For instance, in the mid-20th century, Whitey Munson, the grandfather of the longtime owner of the White Horse Tavern, James Munson, was a boss…
Read More…places. For instance, in the mid-20th century, Whitey Munson, the grandfather of the longtime owner of the White Horse Tavern, James Munson, was a boss at the docks, and a…
Read More…until he was dismissed in 1809 after disagreements with the Manumission Society. Charles C. Andrews, a white man, replaced him and served for twenty years. In 1799, New York’s gradual…
Read MorePhoto of White Horse Tavern (bottom left) courtesy of Wikimedia; Photo of the Merchant’s House Museum (bottom right) courtesy of Village Preservation on Flickr For many, celebrating Irish American heritage in March brings one…
Read More…Village, but highlights the pre-existing prejudices held by many white Village residents, and argues that these beliefs are what make integration even more important. Here is an excerpt from the…
Read More…a Nation — a silent white supremacist propaganda film credited with both resurrecting the Ku Klux Klan and creating the blueprint for the modern epic Hollywood blockbuster — catalyzed an…
Read MorePhoto of White Horse Tavern (bottom left) courtesy of Wikimedia; Photo of the Merchant’s House Museum (bottom right) courtesy of Village Preservation on Flickr For many, celebrating Irish American heritage in March brings one…
Read More…soon found it was too far from his core audience, and so returned to Mercer and Houston Street. Brown’s African Grove Theatre was located near the Park Theater, which served white…
Read More…photos, captured with a digital camera, could warp the sides of the buildings. Also, my photos are in color, in contrast to the simple black-and-white of their predecessors. Their content,…
Read More…first lady spent much of her life after the White House at 29 Washington Square West, where she continued and built upon her prior career as a groundbreaking advocate for…
Read More…Next Time.” The American Negro author deals with negro-white tensions in the United States and describes the anti-white Black Muslim movement and its origins in Negro bitterness and resentment over…
Read More…details as taenia (or ribbon) molding, keystoned windows at the white marble bases, and white marble stoops with massive white marble balustrades leading up to free-standing white marble porches with…
Read More…compassion and violence, made his readings in the United States a success. However, during his tours, he drank recklessly. In 1953, he collapsed after drinking 18 whiskeys at the White…
Read More…up to Halloween. White Horse Tavern White Horse Tavern and Dylan Thomas. Photo courtesy of newyork.com. Located in the West Village and billed as the “2nd oldest continuously run…
Read More…become a prominent part of the congregation and began to take on leadership positions, including former slave James Varick as a deacon. In response, the church’s white congregants forced Black…
Read More…specific version of the history of woman suffrage: that a few bold, white women led a movement for equal voting rights and achieved victory 100 years ago, when the United…
Read More…taken on many aliases. 7. Dylan owes his name partially to the White Horse Tavern. This bar at 567 Hudson Street was the favorite drinking spot of poet Dylan Thomas…
Read More…Ludovicus Viele shows the path of Minetta Creek with the then-current street grid superimposed. In Greenwich Village, white residents found entertainment through the theater and “pleasure gardens” or tea gardens. The…
Read More…located at 78 Fifth Avenue south of Union Square. Flatiron, structural design assited by Marion Parker Whitehall and Annex, structural design by Marion Parker and Elmina Wilson respecitvely Metropolitan Life…
Read More…membership of the court had been all white and male, and until 1981 the court had been all male. Prior to Sotomayor, only two non-white justices, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence…
Read MoreAmerican jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) (in white shirt) and his band perform at the Five Spot Cafe (2 St. Marks Place), New York, New York,…
Read More…the story begins long before her arrival. In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, radical idealists such as Josh White, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Lead Belly, and…
Read More…some of the most interesting places and adventures you can imagine. An Adirondack Adventure Wishing for an Adirondack Adventure? A three-bedroom suite at the unparalleled Whiteface Lodge is available for…
Read More…as an artist in the 1970s and ’80s, was quite open about his sexuality and explicitly integrated it into his art, causing worldwide controversies. His black and white photographs were…
Read More…Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Bishop Alexander Walters, Rev. William Henry Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells, among others, the new organization’s first public meeting was held…
Read More…and state historic preservation offices. Secondly, the National Trust for Historic Preservation approved The Whitehill Report on Professional and Public Education for Historic Preservation in October, 1968. The Whitehill committee…
Read More…but also saw some rare cohesion and integration between black and white residents, specifically in the “Black-and-tan” saloons that came to define the neighborhood. As highlighted in the district’s designation report,…
Read More…well as her support for the cause of women’s suffrage. When her mother died in 1914 during her father’s first term in the White House, as the couple’s eldest, Margaret…
Read More…that was considered normal when displayed by working-class white patrons. Elizabeth Jennings Graham In 1854, activist and educator Elizabeth Jennings Graham boarded a streetcar of the Third Avenue Railway Company…
Read More…— the Whitehall Annex (1910), and McKim, Mead & White’s Pennsylvania Train Station (1911), in addition to the Reed & Stern and Warren & Wetmore collaborative project for the Grand…
Read More…white brick. This was one of the first of an almost endless parade of glazed white brick apartment towers built in New York City after the construction of the Upper…
Read More…blacks and white immigrants might live next door to one another, the pattern, at least in Little Africa, was for blacks to occupy all one building. He cites the example…
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