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Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre ... Shirley Hayes Oral History Archived June 27, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation;
Washington Square, also known as Washington Square Park, is a park in Chicago, Illinois.A registered historic landmark that is better known by its nickname Bughouse Square (derived from the slang of bughouse referring to mental health facilities), it was the most celebrated open air free-speech center in the country as well as a popular Chicago tourist attraction.
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 ...
Hangman's Elm, or simply "The Hanging Tree", is an English Elm located at the northwest corner in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It stood at 135 feet (41 m) tall when measured c. 2000, [1] and has a diameter of 67 inches (1.7 m). [2] [3]
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a monument in Washington Square Park in Rochester, New York. Designed by Leonard Wells Volk, [1] it was erected in 1892. [2] At the top of the 42-foot monument stands a bronze figure of Abraham Lincoln astride a granite shaft. [3] [4] Four bronze figures symbolize the infantry, cavalry, marines, and ...
The campanile tower, located at 51–54 Washington Square South to the west of the church itself, was built in 1895–96, after the sanctuary had been completed, and was designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White. [2] The adjacent Hall, however, predates the church, having been built in 1877, and was designed by John G. Prague. [2]
Washington Square, originally designated in 1682 as Southeast Square, is a 6.4 acres (2.6 ha) open-space park in Center City, Philadelphia, The southeast quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid by William Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme. It is part of both the Washington Square West and Society Hill ...
Austin Steward wrote in his Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman that numerous Black Americans celebrated the end of slavery in New York in Johnson's Square on July 5. [when?] [6] [7] In 2017, the Washington Square Park Neighborhood Association received a $15,000 grant to develop a new Master Plan for the park. [8]