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NYC GARDENS
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3. The owner of the Vauxhall Garden Theatre used the actors of the Park Theatre for a show called Animal Magnetism, while the company was off for the summer. His mother the former Miss Arnold, was a favorite at the John Street Theatre. On July 18, 1806 whose dad and mom performed at the Vauxhall Garden Theatre ?
4. The Sons of Liberty made an old tavern at the NE corner of Ann & Broadway their home when it became Hampden Hall. What garden was near Hampden Hall and just north of the shoemaker's pasture ?
7. In April 1874, Barnum's 8000 seat Hippodrome (1st called Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome) was opened on Madison Street between 26 & 27th. This location was also the site of what first Garden ?
8. Destroyed by fire in August 30, 1807 the Vauxhall Garden Theatre was quickly rebuilt and reopened as a summer theatre managed by Gates the Comedian. In the spring of 1840 until August 1840, and again June 14, 1841 through September 25, 1841, Vauxhall Garden Theatre was rented to who ?
9. In 1800 the northeast corner of Broadway and Prince street was a circus called the Stadium. Also a training ground for race horses this old part of Bayards farm became a military drill ground after the War of 1812. In 1823 a resort called the Columbian Gardens took over the site. Who owned the next and most famous Garden to take over this location after he opened the Sans Souci Theatre on July 4th, 1827 ?
10. A Swiss physician named Jacob created the first botanical garden in NYC at Lafayette and Astor Place. His Gardens lasted until 1804, when Jacob sold the land to John Jacob Astor. What was Jacob last name, that was also the name of this first NYC botanical garden ?
12. Goovert Loockerman owned a seven acre orchard in the 1660's which became a beer garden with a bowling green. What kind of orchard named the street that Goovert Loockerman lived on ?
13. P.T. Barnum's American Museum had a roof top garden that featured what kind of rides ?
14. In 1822 the Richmond Hill mansion opened as a summer resort. In 1831, the mansion was converted to a fashionable theatre called the Richmond Hill Theatre, in 1832, the theatre featured Italian Operas. Before it was torn down in 1849, Richmond Hill ended its historic journey as the ______ Gardens ?
17. This 1765 daytime outlying resort close to the river side of Greenwich Road by Hudson and Spring Streets, was part of the romantic trip to the country over the kissing bridge. What was this garden called ?
18. The Mount Pitt Circus was a 3,500 seat wooden and brick structure that was loacted between Attorney and Ridge streets on Broome street. The Mount Pitt Circus opened November 8, 1826 but it was destroyed by fire on August 5, 1829. Charley White helped with the lamps to earn him free admission almost every night. Charley White became famous for negro minstrelsy, what was his company called in 1843 ? The ________ Minstrels.
19. Who was the owner of the second Vauxhall Gardens which opened in 1798 on Bayard's Mound (Centre, Broome, Mott and Grand Streets)? This Frenchman also owned the final version which opened a theatre across from Cooper Institute Park on May 10th 1806. This 1799 Vauxhall Gardens was south of Astor Place, east of Broadway and west of 4th Avenue until 1855.
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1. Barberries Garden was on Crown Street (Liberty). In the late 1790's Byram's Garden was on a hilltop at Leonard and Broadway. Byram's became Corri's and also Mount ______ Gardens.
2. In April 1874, Barnum's 8000 seat Hippodrome (1st called Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome) was opened on Madison Street between 26 & 27th. This was also the first site of what famous Garden ?
4. Too many gardens were listed on the early city plans for New York. All the gardens inside the wall (on Wall street) seemed to make the directors in Amsterdam mad. A more compact use of land would be easier to control and more economical, they claimed. Whom did they admonish for all the gardens ?
5. Just after 1861, P.T. Barnum presented the first NYC aquarium exhibit of Beluga whales. Living in a brick and cement tank in the American Museums basement. The Belugas died quickly, and more were put in a glass tank on 2nd floor. This aquarium was Barnum's first museum which opened in 1841 after he took over Scudders Museum, off Ann Street on the SE corner of Broadway. P.T. Barnum's American Museum had America's first public aquarium (1856 or 1857), it was called Barnums Ocean and ______Gardens.
6. What NYC garden first opened near the corner of Warren and Greenwich streets ?
11. For 20 years a 1750's pleasure resort called Ranelagh Gardens was leased by John Jones, who used a Colonel 's 1730 mansion and garden near the west side of Broadway and Thomas Street (between Duane and Worth streets). What was the last name of the Colonel who mansion became this elegant garden ?
15. What House riot in Astor Place used the Vauxhall Garden as a receiving station for the many killed and injured ?
16. The Vauxhall Garden used an old mansion of a well known NYC landowner. Whose land was the second Vauxhall Garden on ?
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