PARK FACT:
The current Washington Square Park arch was built between 1890 and 1892 to replace a wooden arch that was created to commemorate the centennial of Washington's inauguration in 1889.
Washington Square Park
Alexander Lyman Holley 
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- Sculptor: John Quincy Adams Ward
- Architect: Thomas Hastings
- Description: Bust on a high central stele joined by screens to shorter side steles at right and left, the whole on a plinth resting on a semi-circular step
- Materials: Bronze, Indiana limestone
- Cast: 1889
- Dedicated: 1889
- Donor: Engineering societies: ASME, AIME, and ASCE
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