23 Street

Memories of 23rd Street, 2002
Glass Mosaic and silk-screned ceramic tile
By Kieth Godard

This artwork consist of a mosaics of a series of hats. Each of these hats has a tile with the name and profession of the relevant celebrity/historical figure who wore a hat with said design. The installation plays homage to historical celebrities who frequented the busy intersections of Madison Square Park above the station. It also plays homage to the flatiron building above the station When the flatiorn building first opened in 1904 it was so much taller than other buildings that people would lose their hats when the wind from the building would stir up and blow around.

Nellie Bly
Stunt person and journalist

Stanford White
Architect

Evelyn Nesbit
Actress

William Sidney Porter (O'Henry)
Author

Grace LaRue
Singer

Lillian Russell
Prima donna, soprano

John Barrymore
Actor

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Author

Eva Tanguay
Entertainer

Ehrich Weiss (Houdini)
Magician

Harriot Blatch
Suffragist

Sadakichi Hartman
Art Critic and writer

Joseph Barondess
Labor leader

Gertude Kasebier
Photographer

Arthur B. Davis
Artist

Billie Burke
Entertainer

Florenz Ziegfeld
Theatrical producer and impresario

William A. Prendergast
New York City Comptroller

Chaim Zhitlovsky
Philosopher

Samuel Gompers
Labor leader

Phineas T. Barnum
Museum owner and circus entrepreneur

Charles Sherwood Stratton (Tom Thumb)
P.T. Barnum performer

Jessie Tarbox Beals
Photographer

Theodore Gordon
Environmentalist

Bert Williams
Comedian, singer and dancer

Henry James
Novelist

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sculptor

Ethel Barrymore
Actress and theater owner

Robert Adamson
Fire Commissioner

Thomas Edison
Inventor

LoÏe Fuller
Dancer

Marcelle Earle
Ziegfeld girl

Winslow Homer
Painter

Marie Curie
Physicist

Charles Ives
Composer

Norma Talmadge
Actress

Robert Ross McBurney
Founder of the YMCA

Charles Melville Dewey
Artist

Sarah Bernhardt
Actress

James Corbett (Gentleman Jim)
Boxer

Eleanor Roosevelt
Humanitarian

Scott Joplin
Composer

Mary Garden
Operatic soprano

Clement C. Moore
Author

Maud Nathan
Reformer

Fay Templeton
Singer and actress

Norma Talmadge
Actress

Julia Ward Howe
Poet

Marcelle Earle
Ziegfeld girl

Marie Curie
Physicist

Winslow Homer
Painter

LoÏe Fuller
Dancer

Thomas Edison
Inventor

Ehtel Barrymore
Actress and theater owner

Chaim Zhitlovsky
Philosopher

Samuel Gompers
Labor leader

William DuBois
Civil rights leader

Phineas T. Barnum
Museum owner and circus entrepreneur

Jessie Tarbox Beals
Photographer

Theodore Gordon
Environmentalist

Bert Williams
Comedian, singer, and dancer

Jake Harnett
Policeman

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sculptor

Anna Held
Actress

Mary Garden
Operatic soprano

Oscar Wilde
Writer and poet

Clement C. Moore
Author

Faye Templeton
Singer and actress

Jim Brady
Businessman

Isadora Duncan
Dancer

Lillie Langtry
Actress

Scott Joplin
Composer

James Corbett(Gentleman Jim)
Boxer

William Randolph Hearst
Newspaper publisher

Harriot Blatch
Suffragist

Arthur B. Davis
Artist

Edward Penfield
Graphic artist

William Barclay Parsons
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