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0 Grey Art Gallery Periodic art exhibits open the
late 19th-century interior to
100 Washington Sq E. Map 4 E2.
Tel (212) 998-6780. q W 4th St, 8th St. the public.
Open 11am–6pm Tue, Thu & Fri,
11am–8pm Wed, 11am–5pm Sat.
∑ nyu.edu/greyart w First Presbyterian
Church
This fine arts museum belongs
to New York University, and 12 W 12th St. Map 4 D1. Tel (212)
features exemplary traveling 675-6150. q 14th St-Union Sq.
exhibitions in a wide range of Open 11:45am–12:30pm Mon, Wed,
media, such as photography, Fri, 11am–12:30pm Sun. 5 6pm Wed
in chapel. ∑ fpcnyc.org
experimental video art,
paintings, and scupture. The
exhibitions are displayed on Designed by Joseph C. Wells in
rotation every three months. 1845, this Gothic church was
There are temporary exhibits modeled on the Church of St
from the university’s permanent Saviour in Bath, England. The Church of the Ascension
collection – American paintings, church is noteworthy for its
between the 1940s to now, are brownstone tower. The carved designed some of the stained
particularly well represented. wooden plaques on the altar list glass. The belfry tower is lit at
The gallery is located in the every pastor since 1716. The night to show off the colors. In
Silver Center, which was the site south transept by McKim, Mead 1844, President John Tyler
of the original University & White was added in 1893. The married Julia Gardiner here; she
Building, demolished in 1892. fence of iron and wood was built lived in nearby Colonnade Row
Henry James based much of his in 1844 and restored in 1981. (see p116).
novel Washington Square on his
grandmother’s house, located
at nearby Washington Square e Church of r Washington
North 19. the Ascension Mews
36–38 5th Ave. Map 4 E1. Between Washington Sq N and E 8th
Tel (212) 254-8620. q 14th St-Union St. Map 4 E2. q W 4th St.
Sq. Open noon–2pm & 5–7pm daily.
5 6pm Mon–Fri, 9am & 11am Sun Built originally as stables, this
(except during services).
∑ ascensionnyc.org hidden enclave was turned into
carriage houses around 1916.
This English Gothic Revival The south side was added in
church was designed in 1840–41 1939. Gertrude Vanderbilt
by Richard Upjohn, architect of Whitney, founder of the Whitney
the Trinity Church. The interior Museum (see pp108–9), once
was re-done in 1888 by Stanford lived here.
White, with an altar relief by At No. 16 is NYU’s French
Exterior of the Salmagundi Club Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Above House, remodeled in the French
the altar hangs The Ascension, a style. Movies, lectures, and
q Salmagundi Club mural by John La Farge, who also classes in French are held here.
47 5th Ave Map 4 E1. Tel (212)
255-7740. q 14th St-Union Sq.
Open 1–6pm Mon–Fri, 1–5pm Sat
& Sun. ^ ∑ salmagundi.org
America’s oldest artists’ club
resides in the last remaining
mansion on lower Fifth Avenue.
Built in 1852 for industrialist
Irad Hawley, it now houses
the American Artists’
Professional League and the
American Water color Society.
Washington Irving’s satiric
periodical, The Salmagundi
Papers, gave the club its name.
Founded in 1871, the
club moved here in 1917. Washington Mews, a hidden quarter that once housed stables

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