The Village became a bohemian bastion struggling through the Great Depression.
The marble Washington Arch was built between the years 18 to replace the popular wooden arch erected in 1889 to commemorate the centennial of Washington’s inauguration.īy 1939, however, when the last of the leases of the houses on The Row – from owners Sailors’ Snug Harbor, the seamen’s charitable organization – expired, society had decamped. Soon after the creation of the Department of Public Parks in 1870, the Square was redesigned and improved by M.A.
The homes on The Row, with their luxurious appointments and elegant rear gardens, were an instant hit with haute New York for the ensuing quarter-century, histories of the Square indicate that “Washington Square was the place to be.” By the end of the 19th century, the north side continued to attract rich and leading citizens, while the south side (now New York University) was populated with immigrants living in tenement houses. Their first occupants were leading merchants, bankers, statesmen and military officers whose families formed a rigid social caste, later evoked in Henry James’s 1881 novel ” Washington Square.” Indeed, one of the houses on The Row provided the setting for the novel. The prestigious houses on The Row are built of red brick in Flemish bond, with entrances flanked by Ionic and Doric columns, and marble balustrades. The first seven houses were completed within two years, with the other six following shortly after. The Row’s developers leased property from Sailors’ Snug Harbor, a seamen’s charitable organization that owned acreage north of the park. Considered among the finest Greek Revival dwellings in New York, the houses on The Row were planned as high-end housing and built all together between 18. New York University has been located on the Square since the 1830s, and occupies the late-nineteenth century buildings on the east, as well as structures of more recent vintage on the south.Ģ2 Washington Square is one of the stretch of 13 grand town houses that grace the north side of the Square, known as “The Row”. Morse, a professor at New York University. In 1835, Washington Square Park hosted the first public demonstration of the telegraph by Samuel F.B.
Following this designation, a number of wealthy and prominent families, escaping the disease and congestion of downtown Manhattan, moved into the area and built the distinguished Greek Revival mansions that still line the Square’s north side. The site was used as the Washington Military Parade Ground in 1826, and became a public park in 1827. The field was also used for public executions, giving rise to the tale of the Hangman’s Elm which stands in the northwest corner of the park. In 1797, New York City’s Common Council acquired the land that is now New York’s Washington Square Park for use as a “Potter’s Field”, or common burial ground. 22 Washington Square, the home of the Straus Institute, the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, and the Jean Monnet Center for International & Regional Economic Law & Justice – and its surrounds of Washington Square Park and The Row – have a fascinating history that is all New York, and which befits the home of great minds and law-and-justice-related ideas.
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