South:
Tammany Hall
100-102: The final home, built in 1928, of the club that dominated New York politics for decades.
Named for an Indian chief known, like the club, for his anti-British attitudes.
The hall is now home to
the
New York Film Academy, a movie-making school, and to the Union Square Theater.
112: This brownstone looks like a Bedrock mansion.
118: The Irving; one of a row of handsome brownstones
"Irving House"
Corner (49 Irving): Washington Irving did not live here, contrary to the plaque;
nor did Irving's nephew live here, as some guidebooks alternatively suggest. This was the home of Edgar Irving, a
seemingly unrelated merchant; the fact that the street
was named for Washington Irving, and that a nephew whom the
writer frequently visited did did live nearby seems to have caused the confusion.
This house was lived in by Elsie de
Wolfe,
an early and influential interior decorator who redecorated the White House in 1902, and by her lover, Elizabeth Marbury,
literary agent for Shaw, Oscar Wilde and J.M. Barrie. Currently Yama, a noted sushi place, is in the basement.
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