9 Facts About The Queen's House In Greenwich Celebrating 400th Anniversary

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• About the Village Alliance
• The Village Beat features the latest news, events and business information.
• Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre
• It was NYC’s first walk-in outpatient counseling center for drug treatment
• The Art Newspaper: Historic New York ceramic studio fires up second location
• Greenwich House Theater
• William Shakespeare at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

The area is also served by North Greenwich station with Jubilee Line services to Stanmore and Stratford. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, which overlooks the River Thames from a hill in Greenwich Park. It is also used to refer to Universal Time (UT), which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields and is often referred to by the military in the phrase Zulu time. Near the Cutty Sark site, a circular building contains the entrance to the Greenwich foot tunnel, opened on 4 August 1902. The north exit of the tunnel is at Island Gardens,[36] from where the famous view of Greenwich Hospital painted by Canaletto can be seen.

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A major fire in May 2007 destroyed a part of the ship, although much had already been removed for restoration. Nearby for many years was also displayed Gipsy Moth IV, the 54 feet (16.5 m) yacht sailed by Sir Francis Chichester in his single-handed, 226-day circumnavigation of the globe during 1966–67. In 2004, Gipsy Moth IV was removed from Greenwich, and after restoration work completed a second circumnavigation in May 2007. On the riverside in front of the north-west corner of the hospital is an obelisk erected in memory of Arctic explorer Joseph René Bellot.

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Twenty years later, in 1987, Greenwich House founded the AIDS Mental Health Project, a first-of-its-kind, which was soon followed by the Children’s Safety Project to provide prevention, counseling and treatment services for children suffering from trauma and abuse. In 1991, primary care service for HIV patients began – the first, and for many years, the only services in the city specifically addressing the needs of those living with HIV/AIDS. The 1960s brought new concerns to the Greenwich Village community and Greenwich House was as responsive as ever. In 1963 it received a grant from the National Institute of Health to establish the first walk-in outpatient counseling center for drug treatment in New York. When it opened in 1964 as a psychiatric clinic, it was the first in the state exclusively for narcotics addicts.

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George V and Queen Mary both supported the creation of the National Maritime Museum, and Mary presented the museum with many items. George IV donated nearly 40 paintings to the hospital in 1824, at a stroke creating a gallery in the Painted Hall. Subsequently, William IV and Queen Adelaide were both regular donors and visitors to the gallery. Prince James (later King James II & VII), as Duke of York and Lord Admiral until 1673, was often at Greenwich with his brother Charles and, according to Samuel Pepys, he proposed the idea of creating a Royal Naval Hospital. This was eventually established at Greenwich by his daughter Mary II, who in 1692–1693 commissioned Christopher Wren to design the Royal Hospital for Seamen (now the Old Royal Naval College).

It was NYC’s first walk-in outpatient counseling center for drug treatment

In 1838 the London and Greenwich Railway (L&GR) completed the very first steam railway in London. It started at London Bridge and had its terminus at London Street (now Greenwich High Road). It was also the first to be built specifically for passengers, and the first ever elevated railway, having 878 arches over its almost four mile stretch. South of the railway's viaduct over Deptford Creek is a Victorian pumping station constructed in 1864 as part of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's London sewerage system (the Southern Outfall Sewer flows under Greenwich town centre). Historically an ancient parish in the Blackheath Hundred of Kent, the town formed part of the growing conurbation of London in the 19th century. When the County of London, an administrative area designed to replace the Metropolitan Board of Works, was formed in 1889, the parish merged with those of Charlton-next-Woolwich, Deptford St Nicholas and Kidbrooke to create the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich.

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Through the generosity of Gertrude Payne Whitney, an arts school was started in the new Greenwich House headquarters at 27 Barrow Street when it opened in 1917. The original Art Committee included renowned artists like Daniel Chester French, John Sloan, James Fraser and Guy Pene du Bois. It was then that Greenwich House’s reputation as a center of fine arts education and production surged. The arts programming expanded to the Arts and Crafts building at 16 Jones Street, opened in 1928. The Center continues to incorporate the mission of the former Children’s Safety Project of treatment and prevention for children as well as adults who have been victims or witnesses of abuse.

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Black is also the co-founder and executive producer of Uncharted, a community concert series for GHMS featuring local artists premiering new work or new collaborations. At one time, well-known musicians, including John Cage, Edgard Verese, Joan Tower, and Meredith Monk played and/or practiced at Greenwich House. In 2003, the Barrow Street Theatre began with notable and award-winning plays and in 2019, Ars Nova made Greenwich House Theatre their new downtown home, featuring off-Broadway productions. In 1963, Greenwich House received a federal grant to establish a Counseling Center, the first walk-in, outpatient counseling center for drug treatment in New York.

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The University of Greenwich main campus occupies most of the grand, landmark riverside vista buildings of the former Royal Naval College. But this practice, combined with mariners from other nations drawing from Nevil Maskelyne's method of lunar distances based on observations at Greenwich, eventually led to GMT being used worldwide as a reference time independent of location. Most time zones were based upon this reference as a number of hours and half-hours "ahead of GMT" or "behind GMT". In 1805, George III granted the Queen's House to the Royal Naval Asylum (an orphanage school), which amalgamated in 1821–1825 with the Greenwich Hospital School.

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We still have a waiting list of 140 people with a critical demand for making in clay.” Just to put things in perspective, the Pottery mixes 60 tons of clay from 50 pound bags and creates its own glazes which is part of the educational experience and the training our staff provides. It also host Master Series lectures as well and two residency programs, including Egyptian painter Ghada Amer. Greenwich House's main building was built between 1916 and 1917, funded by board members including Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Anna Woershoffer.

Greenwich House Theater began as a children’s theater in 1917, directed by Helen Murphy, offering classes and productions for the local community. Kirk Douglas expanded the program in the 1940s to include teens and young adults before he began his career as an actor. Founded in 1905, Greenwich House Music School was founded as a place for immigrant children and now provides music, art, and dance education for both children and adults. About 40 faculty members provide group and individual instruction for a variety of instruments, including piano, strings, guitar, harp, percussion, woodwinds, brass and Suzuki Violin. In 1997 Maritime Greenwich was added to the list of World Heritage Sites, for the concentration and quality of buildings of historic and architectural interest.

Greenwich House quickly established itself as a pioneer social service agency, responding to the needs of the neighborhood with programs that were often the first of their kind in New York City. Greenwich House served as the headquarters of the local Red Cross and helped the Food and Fuel Administrations distribute resources during World War One. As weekly attendance topped ten thousand during the Great Depression, Greenwich House became a partner for many of the New Deal’s programs in providing basic social services. It had a particularly close relationship with the cultural activities of the Works Progress Administration.

Mary Simkhovitch advocated for better living conditions for New Yorkers through her work at Greenwich House and beyond. A few notable achievements of hers include publishing the Tenant’s Rights Manual and serving as the Chairperson of the New York Board of Welfare. In 1934 she became the Vice President of the New York Housing Authority, a position which she held for fourteen years. For questions relating to a specific program, it’s best to contact the program directly. Together, Harvey and Hellen facilitate a Loss and Loneliness peer support group at Center on the Square, which strives to provide emotional and social support to members in need. They are also excited to resume the ever popular weekly jam, where musicians gather to play.

Simkhovitch’s friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt enabled her to have President Roosevelt’s ear about the direction of these services as they were rolled out across the country. Children are welcome in Greenwich House Youth Community Center or Barrow Street Nursery School. Artists of all ages take classes at Greenwich House Music School and Greenwich House Pottery or enjoy concerts and cultural events hosted by these schools. Seniors find community, social activities, and case management at our four senior centers, and workforce training at our Lifetime Skills and Opportunity Center.

Whitney established the Art School at Greenwich House before opening the Whitney Museum of Art. To support the growing arts program, Greenwich House established a Workshop Building at 16 Jones Street in 1928, and in 1948, the Pottery workshop took over, where it still operates today. Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time.

He lived until the age of fifty-two and although he was born and is buried in Stratford-upon-Avon, it was in London that he made his fame and fortune. Known as The Bard of Avon, his plays are regularly revived on the London stage, and the Globe Theatre, where he made his reputation as a playwright, was rebuilt in the late twentieth century largely as a result of the efforts of the American actor and theatre director Sam Wanamaker. It's where hemispheres meet and royal heritage combines with contemporary architecture. It’s home to the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, London’s oldest enclosed royal park and the Prime Meridian of the World - longitude zero. Greenwich is served by Greenwich and Maze Hill stations with Southeastern services to London Cannon Street, Dartford, Barnehurst and Crayford as well as Thameslink services to Luton via London Blackfriars and to Rainham. Secondary schools in the area include The John Roan School, founded 1677, and St Ursula's Convent School, established 1850.

The displays and interpretation will chart the changing relationship between the Queen’s House, the people who created it and those who lived and worked there, from royalty and courtiers to the Navy. At the end of February, Turner Prize winner Richard Wright started on a new artwork for the Queen’s House, part of the Royal Museums Greenwich. This is the first time an artist has worked on the ceiling of the Great Hall since Orazio Gentileschi created a series of nine paintings in 1639. Richard’s complex installation, inspired by the Tulip Stairs, will be on view when the Queen’s House re-opens after restoration on 4 July 2016 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of its commissioning and design.