Washington Square
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Washington Square may refer to:
Places
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Places
- Washington Square (Boston)Washington Square (Boston)Washington Square is a neighborhood in Brookline, Massachusetts at the corner of Beacon Street and Washington Street. This area is relatively upscale, featuring attractive brownstone buildings which line both Beacon Street, and the leafy side streets...
, Massachusetts - Washington Square (MBTA station)Washington Square (MBTA station)The Washington Square stop is on the C Branch of the Green Line and serves the Brookline neighborhood of Washington Square, which is about 5 minutes by light rail to the shopping center of Coolidge Corner.-External links:**...
, Brookline, Massachusetts - Washington Square Park (Chicago), Illinois
- Washington Square (Charleston)Washington Square (Charleston)Washington Square is a greenspace in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. It is located behind city hall at the corner of Meeting Street and Broad Street in the Charleston Historic District. It was known as City Hall Park until 1881, when it was renamed in honor of George Washington....
, South Carolina - Washington Square ParkWashington Square ParkWashington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City's 1,900 public parks. At 9.75 acres , it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity...
, Greenwich Village, New York City - Washington Square (Philadelphia)Washington Square (Philadelphia)Washington Square, originally designated in 1682 as Southeast Square, is an open-space park in Center City Philadelphia's Southeast quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid by William Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme. It is part of both the Washington Square West...
, Pennsylvania - Washington Square West, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaWashington Square West, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaThe Gayborhood is a neighborhood in downtown, or Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood roughly corresponds to the area between 7th and Broad Streets and between Walnut and South Streets, bordering on the Independence Mall tourist area directly northeast, Market East to the...
- Washington Square (Newport, Rhode Island)Washington Square (Newport, Rhode Island)Washington Square is the geographical and historical heart of Newport Rhode Island. More trapezoid than square, it exists at the intersection of several major streets and what was the colonial long wharf, projecting into the harbor off Aquidneck Island and into Narragansett Bay...
- Washington Square (San Francisco), California
- Washington Square, SyracuseWashington Square, SyracuseWashington Square is one of the 26 officially recognized neighborhoods of Syracuse, New York.Washington Square encompasses what used to be the old Village of Salina which has a concentration of two, three, and four- family structures, and larger apartments surrounded by single-family homes. The...
, New York - Washington Square (Bangkok)Washington Square (Bangkok)Washington Square is an entertainment area in Bangkok, Thailand, located at Sukhumvit Soi 22, near the Phrom Phong skytrain station. It contains bars, restaurants, massage parlors and a katoey theatre...
, Thailand
Buildings
- Washington Square (Detroit)Washington Square (Detroit)Washington Square is a high-rise in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Built in 1981, the residential building stands 28 stories tall. The building is located at 1431 Washington Boulevard and occupies the block bordered by Clifford Street, Grand River Avenue and Washington Boulevard...
, Michigan - Washington Square (Salt Lake City, Utah)
- Washington Square VillageWashington Square VillageWashington Square Village is an apartment complex in a superblock in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. WSV was developed by Paul Tishman and Morton S. Wolf. To design the housing complex,the developer selected architects S.J...
, New York City - Washington Square (Bellevue, Washington)
Shopping centres
- Washington Square (Oregon), Tigard, Oregon
- Washington Square Mall (Evansville, Indiana)Washington Square Mall (Evansville, Indiana)Washington Square Mall is a shopping mall located in Evansville, Indiana, United States. It opened October 31, 1963 and was the first enclosed shopping center in Indiana. Developed by Erie Investments, the mall was originally anchored by Sears and an A & P supermarket. Louisville-based Stewart Dry...
- Washington Square Mall (Indianapolis, Indiana)Washington Square Mall (Indianapolis, Indiana)Washington Square Mall is a regional shopping mall located on the eastern side of Indianapolis. It opened in 1974 with a renovation/expansion in 1999. Today, there are over 80 stores and, Burlington Coat Factory, Dick's Sporting Goods, Sears, and Target are the major anchor stores, as well as the...
Arts
- Washington Square (novel)Washington Square (novel)Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, domineering father...
, by Henry James - Washington Square (1997 film)Washington Square (film)Washington Square is a 1997 American drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The screenplay by Carol Doyle is based on the 1880 novel of the same name by Henry James, which was filmed as The Heiress in 1949.-Plot summary:...
, adaptation by Carol Doyle - "Washington Square" (The Village Stompers song)
- "Washington Square" (Counting Crows song)Washington Square (Counting Crows song)"Washington Square" is the seventh track on Counting Crows' 2008 album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, and the track that opens the Sunday Mornings half of the album.-Song Meaning:...
- Washington SquaresWashington SquaresThe Washington Squares were a 1980s neo-beatnik folk revival music group. Modeled after early 1960s groups like The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, the group was named after New York City's Washington Square Park, emblematic of Greenwich Village...
, American music group of the 1980s
Other
- Washington Square NewsWashington Square NewsThe Washington Square News is the daily student newspaper of New York University and serves the NYU, Greenwich Village, and East Village communities. The paper, better known as WSN, has a circulation of 10,000 and an estimated 65,000 readers online...
, New York University newspaper