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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ZE_west-end-collegiate-church-and-collegiate-school_New-York-NY.html
Designed in a Flemish style by Robert W. Gibson, this building was completed in 1892 for the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church which was the first ecclesiastical organization in New York, established by the Dutch colonists in 1628. The C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UXH_sergei-vassilevich-rachmaninoff-historical_New-York-NY.html
Lived in this building the last seventeen years of his life. The Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor settled in the New York in 1918; he gave over a thousand concerts throughout America and became a citizen of the United States. Here he c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UX2_where-poe-wrote-the-raven-historical_New-York-NY.html
Upon this site
formerly stood The Brennen Mansion
in which resided
from March 1844 to August 1845
Edgar Allan Poe
and here during such residence he produced
and gave to American literature and to immortality
The Raven
in commemoration of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UVK_george-herman-babe-ruth-historical_New-York-NY.html
"The Sultan of Swat" led the New York Yankees to seven pennants between 1920 and 1934. Ruth hit 714 career home runs, a record until 1974. He lived here for several years, beginning in 1929, and then moved to 173 Riverside Drive.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIA_where-poe-wrote-the-raven_New-York-NY.html
Edgar Allan Poe and his family lived in a farmhouse on this site in 1844 where he finished writing "The Raven".
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12LF_belvedere-tower_New-York-NY.html
Erected in 1869 as a lookout. It now houses the New York Meteorological Observatory which was founded in 1868 by Dr. Daniel Draper who was its director until his retirement in 1912. At which time the observatory came under the direction of the Uni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12KZ_bethesda-fountain-and-terrace_New-York-NY.html
Designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, these stairways, terrace and fountain were the focal feature of the original plan for Central Park by Vaux and Frederick Law Omsted. The fountain sculpture by Emma Stebbins, inspired by the biblical a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10JQ_soldiers-and-sailors-memorial-monument_New-York-NY.html
To the memory of the brave soldiers and sailors who saved the UnionIn memoriamErected byThe City of New YorkMCM< Eastern Plinth : >GrantFort Sumter · Bull Run · Hatteras Inlet · Balls Bluff · Port Royal · Fort He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKS1_tecumseh-playground_New-York-NY.html
Tecumseh Playground.738 acreOne of the Civil War's best-known generals, William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) was born in Lancaster, Ohio in 1820. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1840 and served in California a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKRY_the-falconer-statue_New-York-NY.html
The Falconer StatueCentral ParkThis elegant bronze statue by British Sculptor George Blackall Simonds (1843-1929) depicts a young falconer in Elizabethan garb holding aloft a falcon poised for release.
The Falconer is representative of the ric…