Hudson Street @ 11th Street
Architect: Unknown Architect
Date Constructed: 1880

The White Horse Tavern is one of the few wood–framed buildings left in New York City. It started out as a neighborhood tavern during the 1880s, and over the next century New York grew up around it. During Prohibition the bar became a speakeasy; when New York’s cargo ports moved to Manhattan’s West Side, it became a sailor’s bar; when Greenwich Village became a bohemian center, the White Horse became a hangout for artists and writers; it is now, once again, a friendly neighborhood bar. The poet Dylan Thomas died after a heavy night of drinking at this bar on November 9th, 1953; it was said that he downed more than twenty shots of Scotch.