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The White Horse Tavern, located in New York City's borough of Manhattan at Hudson Street and 11th Street, is known for its 1950s and 1960s bohemian culture. It is one of the few major gathering-places for writers and artists from this period in Greenwich Village (specifically the West Village ) that remains open.
In 1673, he sold the lot to William Mayes, who enlarged the building to become a tavern. [2] It was also used for large meetings, including as a Rhode Island General Assembly meeting place, a courthouse, and a city hall. [2] Mayes obtained a tavern license in 1687, and his son William Mayes Jr. operated it through the early eighteenth century. [2]
The other contributing buildings include the former blacksmith shop (c. 1812/1848), where Thomas J. Thornton from Dundalk Ireland was the resident blacksmith from 1948 until his death while shoeing a horse at a nearby Radnor Hunt on April 13, 1968, the White Horse Store and residence (1798), and the White Horse Tavern (c. 1798).
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The original structure was eventually demolished and its wood repurposed to construct an addition to the neighboring White Horse Tavern, for which the village of White Horse was named (as well as the road, White Horse Pike). [3] By 1845, the present building is believed to have been erected on the same foundation as the 1743 store. [4]
The first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts, was a Puritan ordinary, opened on March 4, 1633. [17] That date would have been given under the Julian Calendar, which was in use by England and its colonies at the time. The White Horse Tavern, in Newport, Rhode Island, is
The White Horse Tavern or White Horse Inn [1] was allegedly the meeting place in Cambridge for English Protestant reformers to discuss Lutheran ideas, from 1521 onwards. [2] According to the historian Geoffrey Elton the group of university dons who met there were nicknamed "Little Germany " [ 3 ] in reference to their discussions of Luther.
The White Horse Tavern (circa 1673) in Newport is one of the oldest extant buildings in Rhode Island. The history of Rhode Island is an overview of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the state of Rhode Island from pre-colonial times to the present.