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27 Cooper Square

27 Cooper Square

27 Cooper Square

In the 1960s, this 1845 former rooming house became a laboratory for artistic, literary and political currents. Writers LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones, their Yugen magazine and Totem Press, musician Archie Shepp and painter Elizabeth Murray all had homes here. The vacant building was transformed into a vital hub of cultural life, attracting leading figures including those from the Beats and the world of jazz.


Submitted by The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

20th-century african-american writers 27 cooper square allen ginsberg american civil rights activists american civil rights movement amiri baraka archie shepp beat generation poets and writers black arts movement black mountain poets east village east village artists and thinkers in the 1960s edward dorn elizabeth murray five spot café jazz club frank o'hara hettie jones jack kerouac jazz in nyc in the 1960s leroi jones new york city nyc ornette coleman peter orlovsky totem press william s. burroughs yugen magazine
👤 Submitted by The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation 📅 2018-03-05

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