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April 18: Professor Mary Brown Leads Greenwich Village Walking Tour
April 18, 2009
Date: Saturday, April 18
Time: 12-3 p.m.
Location: Greenwich Village
Cost: $20 for tour and lunch
Registration Information: R.S.V.P. by April 10. This tour is sold out.
Mary Brown is a professor and the archivist at our Thomas J. Shanahan Library. She will be leading a tour of Greenwich Village. Mary has a plethora of knowledge about our big city and will leave you with a deeper understanding of this place we have all called home. This tour takes us from Astor Place to Christopher Street.
The tour will include Astor Place, Cooper Union and Peter Cooper’s statue, McSorley’s Ale House, the Papp Theatre (the old Astor Theatre and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), the De Vinne Press, samples of loft buildings and tenements, the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the setting for a well-known Willa Cather short story “Coming, Aphrodite!,” the homes of Henry James and Edith Wharton, the Garibaldi statue and the arch in Washington Square, Judson Memorial Church, the site of the Provincetown Playhouse, sample Federalist houses and Greek Revival houses, MacDougal Street, Minetta Lane, and Minetta Street, the church of Our Lady of Pompei, Demo Square and Bleecker Street, Greenwich House and a former stable, Sheridan Square, the home of Rose Pastor Stokes, and the site of the Stonewall revolt. Please note the tour can take about 90 minutes to two hours.
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