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Mitchel Square
Broadway, St Nicholas Av, W 166 St To W 168 St
Manhattan
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Acres: 0.77
Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial 
Read a history from Parks’ Historical Signs Project. This text can be found posted within the park.
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- Sculptor: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Architect: Delano and Aldrich
- Description: Group of three doughboy figures (over life-size) with integral plinth on a low base that rests on a circular pedestal; twenty plaques facing upward and carrying the names of the dead surround the group
- Materials: Bronze, Deer Isle granite
- Cast: 1923
- Dedicated: May 30, 1923
- Donor: Washington Heights & Inwood Memorial Association
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