Horace Greeley - Legacy and Cultural References

Legacy and Cultural References

• In 1856, he designed and built Rehoboth, one of the first concrete structures in the United States.
• Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia is dedicated to Greeley. In the Publisher's Announcement in Volume I, A.J. Johnson stated that Horace Greeley suggested the plan for the work and urged its publication, and was a primary advisor. Greeley is listed as an associate editor.
• The New York Tribune building was the first home of Pace University. Today, the site where the building stood is now the One Pace Plaza complex of Pace's New York City campus. Dr. Choate’s residence and private hospital, where Horace Greeley died, today is part of Pace's campus in Pleasantville.

• Places named after him include: Greeley, Pennsylvania, Greeley, Colorado, Greeley, Texas, Greeley, Kansas, Greeley County, Kansas (where there is also a city of Horace, and the county seat is Tribune), and Greeley County, Nebraska (which also has a town named Horace). Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, where his house is located, is also named after him.
• Horace Greeley Square is a small park in the Herald Square area of Manhattan featuring a seated statue of Greeley designed by Alexander Doyle and was dedicated in 1890. The park is next to the site of the former New York Herald building. There is a second seated statue of Greeley in Manhattan, this one in City Hall Park downtown.
• Mount Horace Greeley is one of the highest points in the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan.
• Horace Greeley is depicted in the film Gangs of New York by Michael Byrne in his capacity as publisher of the Tribune.

• The name of Horace Greeley appears in Morris' comic book Lucky Luke in The Daily Star album. Lucky Luke helps a young editor, Horace Greeley, to set himself up in Dead End City and to establish his newspaper, The Daily Star.
• Hjalmar Schacht (full name: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht) was named after Greeley.