Arch, Centennial Celebration of Inauguration of George Washington

Temporary Arch on Fifth Avenue at Twenty-Third Street, New York City for the Military Parade, April 30, 1889. The centennial celebration of the inauguration of George Washington. Photograph published in the History of the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as First President of the United States by Clarence Winthrop Bowen (1852-1935), published in 1892 by a committee of citizens of the City of New York, whose active work began on November 10, 1887.

This is the junction of Broadway and Fifth Avenue and Madison Square Park is in the background. Below, opposite view showing the Grand Stand on Madison Square Park, with Broadway in the background.