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The Washington Square Arch, officially the Washington Arch, [1] is a marble memorial arch in Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Stanford White in 1891, [ 2 ] it commemorates the centennial of George Washington's 1789 inauguration as President of the United ...
Washington Arch by Childe Hassam, c. 1893 Close-up of Washington Square Arch. Robert Moses became the parks commissioner in 1934. He embarked on a crusade to fully redesign the park, and local activists began an opposing fight that lasted three decades. In 1934, Robert Moses had the fountain renovated to also serve as a wading pool.
David Hazlitt King Jr. (1849 – April 1916) was a prominent Gilded Age constructor, developer, hotelier, investment banker, art collector, President of the New York City Park Commission, and one of the initial Directors of the Metropolitan Opera House Company of New York.
Washington Square Arch [1] 1890–1892 New York City: United States: Dewey Arch: 1899–1900 New York City: United States: Manhattan Bridge Arch [2] 1915 New York City: United States: Roosevelt Arch: 1903 Gardiner, Montana: United States: Atlantic & Pacific Arches, National World War II Memorial: 2002 Washington, D.C. United States: Gateway ...
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Washington Square Arch (1895), Stanford White, architect, New York City. Spandrel figures (1895), Frederick MacMonnies, sculptor. George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, Accompanied by Fame and Valor (1916), Hermon Atkins MacNeil, sculptor. George Washington as President, Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice (1918), Alexander Stirling Calder.
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The Brooklyn Times-Union described the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch as superior to Manhattan's Washington Square Arch [198] and, in 1913, described the arch as the "Arc de Triomphe of America". [129] After Eakins's and Donovan's bas-reliefs were installed, the Tribune quoted critics who described the relief as "obtrusive" and "humiliating". [97]