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27 Cooper Square

27 Cooper Square In the 1960s, this 1845 former rooming house became a laboratory for artistic, literary and political currents. Writers LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones,...

  • 27 cooper square
  • east village
  • nyc
  • new york city
  • leroi jones
  • amiri baraka
  • hettie jones
  • yugen magazine
  • totem press
  • allen ginsberg
  • jack kerouac
  • frank o'hara
  • william s. burroughs
  • edward dorn
  • peter orlovsky
  • archie shepp
  • ornette coleman
  • elizabeth murray
  • beat generat...
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  • black mountain poets
  • black arts movement
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Dickerman-Steele House

Dickerman-Steele HouseThis house was built in 1878, by Edwin Dickerman for his bride Effie Steele. This plaque is in memory of their daughter, Flora, who married Jay Frank Steele. Flora lived in...

    Coffman Swimming Pool

      Jack's Restaurant

      • 1864
      • restaurant

      The Detroit Industry Murals

      The Detroit Industry Murals has been designated a National Historic Landmark This site possesses national significance as the United State's finest modern monumental artwork devoted to...

      • typo
      • united state's

      Pierre Dugat Home Site

      In 1776 Pierre Dugat received a Spanish land grant for this site, which became his plantation. Indian artifacts found on this site date from 3000 B.C. to about the eighteenth century.

      • louisiana
      • lafayette

      You Are Free

      YOU ARE FREE FROM MAY 1940 UNTIL AUGUST 1945 THE NETHERLANDS GOVERNMENT FOUND REFUGE HERE IN STATION HOUSE Submitted by @invertiert

      • wwii

      Cuddy & Hughes Pacific Appeal

      CUDDY & HUGHES PACIFIC APPEAL LOCATED ON THE SW CORNER OF SANSOME AND MERCHANT STREETS, CUDDY AND HUGHES PRINTED THE PACIFIC APPEAL, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER THAT SERVED FOR MANY YEARS AS THE...

      • emperor norton

      Kong Chow Temple, Established 1851

      KONG CHOW TEMPLE ESTABLISHED 1851  KONG CHOW BENEVOLENT ASS'N. ESTABLISHED 1854 KONG CHOW BUILDING ERECTED 1977

        Devil's Acre

        DEVIL'S ACRE & BATTLE ROW "The Center of Sin in San Francisco" From the mid-1880s onward, the diagonally cut block bounded by Broadway, Kearny, and Columbus came to be known locally as...