Pfaff's Cellar Tavern at the Coleman Hotel

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Frequented by artists and writers, including Walt Whitman, in the mid 19th century

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Tavern where Walt Whitman and the city's bohemian community thrived in the 1850s and 60s. The crucible of American modernism--in addition to his literary genius, Whitman's was the guiding spirit for the pre-WWI avant garde as well as the later Beats.