This four-story building was designed in 1870 as a school for St. Ann’s Church by the well-know architect Napoleon LeBrun, who later became the official architect of the NYFD. It housed what was once the city's leading civil service school. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This nine-story buff brick and stone Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1902-04 by Sass & Smallheiser for the Middleboro and Master Builders Realty Company. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The Baumann Brothers Furniture and Carpets Store at 22-26 East 14th Street was designed in 1881 by eminent architects David and John Jardine for merchant James McCreery. Landmarked in 2008, this through-block building is considered one of New York’s great works of cast iron architecture. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A new building permit for 771-785 Broadway/63-67 East 9th Street/60-62 East 10th Street was filed in 1952. A significant 19th century Civil War photographer, who took a portrait for the ascendant presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln, had a studio at a now-demolished building at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story rowhouse with a raised basement was built c. 1830 and retains few of its 19th century details. The current Greek Revival configuration likely dates to an 1851 alteration for Thomas Sturges. One of the most celebrated DJs and remixers of the last forty years, who transformed the NYC music, club, and LGBTQ nightlife scene in the late 20th century, had a recording and mixing studio in this building. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story Beaux-Arts building was designed in 1903 by architects Jardine, Kent & Jardine as an auction mart for horses and then automobiles. The part of the building facing East 12th Street dates to 1890. 126-128 East 13th Street housed a vocational school for women during World War II and was the studio for over a quarter century of noted artist Frank Stella. It was saved from planned demolition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This lot includes a pair of combined rowhouses built prior to 1853. In the 1940s, the building served as the headquarters of the Communist Party. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Built as the rectory for Grace Church, this Gothic Revival structure was constructed in 1846 and designed by James Renwick, Jr., who also designed the church. It was designated an individual NYC landmark in 1966. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The four-story rowhouse at 64 Third Avenue was likely built for John B. Corlier in 1838-39. The adjacent four-story brick building at 122-124 East 11th Street was probably constructed at the same time for Smith & Ely. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story Greek Revival rowhouse was built in 1847-48 for Elias Brevoort. Along with 102 Fourth Avenue it is the sole survivor of a row of at least eight such houses which once lined this section of Fourth Avenue. It was also the home of a prominent Book Row seller featuring titles on mathematics, philosophy, science, and sexology. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 8-story commercial loft building was built in three stages — in 1892 by architect R.H. Robertson, with additions in 1907 and 1915. It was built as the first American headquarters of prestigious publishers Macmillan Co. It later housed Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, the first art cinema house in America, and the first studio of “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham. A beloved Book Row seller was located here as well. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This two-story brick store was constructed c. 1844 for the prominent Van Beuren family, which owned and developed much of the land on or near 14th Street. It was a cabinetry shop of William Winberg.

On March 12, 1651, Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of the Dutch West India Company, purchased Bouwerie (Dutch for ‘farm’) #1 and part of Bouwerie #2 in what is today’s East Village and the area South of Union Square. While these landholdings only remained farmland for a fraction of their existence, the area between present-day 5th and 20th Streets, from Fourth Avenue to the East River, would nevertheless remain in the Stuyvesant family for many generations. Though the land eventually traded hands to new owners, the Stuyvesant family imprint can still be seen on the neighborhood today in a number of ways. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

74 University Place/30-36 East 11th Street was constructed as part of a row of c. 1843-44, five-story Greek Revival rowhouses erected for John Morse. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This dormitory was built for NYU by architect Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates in 1999. The previous building on this site, known as the Academy of Music and then The Palladium, served as a deluxe movie palace, an iconic rock venue, and later a nightclub. An even earlier building here housed the reading room that eventually became the New York Free Circulating Library. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This largely intact grand Italianate style brownstone-fronted rowhouse was constructed c. 1857-58 for the prominent businessman and philanthropist John Schermerhorn Bussing. Designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent previously lived here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was originally erected c. 1846-47 for Peter Lorillard Jr. It was built as a four-story Greek Revival rowhouse, but the top two floors were demolished in 1938.

These two eight-story lofts were designed by Cleverdon & Putzel in 1893 and 1895 for Phillip Braender and Louis Cohen. They feature a Romanesque Revival style and cast-iron bases. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story masonry building was constructed as two separate buildings c. 1852-53 for Thomas McKie. In 1967 the buildings were combined and given a new facade.

The present four-story brick loft building at 121-123 Fourth Avenue is a combination of two buildings at 121 and 123 Fourth Avenue that probably date to the mid-19th century but were conjoined with the single facade we see today in 1937. 121 and 123 Fourth Avenue were home to a number of Book Row sellers over the course of the late-19th and 20th centuries. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was originally constructed as a three-story Greek Revival row house for owner Masterton & Smith in 1841-42. In 1939 it was reduced to one story, and in 2009 altered to eight stories. This was the final location of the renowned Cedar Tavern, a central gathering spot for the New York School of writers and artists. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story plus raised basement Italianate style rowhouse was built c. 1847-48 for William Bailey. The house’s façade has been stuccoed, but it retains its Italianate doorway, cornice, and elaborate stoop and areaway ironwork. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1903 for builder Jeremiah C. Lyons and designed by Buchman & Fox. The publishing house Jacobsen Publishing was located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story building was constructed by Moore and Hutchins in 1951-52. One of the most outstanding examples of contextual, historicist architecture of its time, it houses Grace Church School with 86 Fourth Avenue and is part of the Grace Church individual NYC landmark designated in 1966. Multiple Book Row sellers were located at this site before the current building was erected. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed in 1898 as a firehouse by architect Horgan & Slattery for the City of New York. Since 1963 it has been the home of Cinema Village, the oldest continuously operating art house cinema in New York City. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story Romanesque Revival style loft building was designed by Richard Berger in 1891. It was originally commissioned by fur manufacturers Louis and Samuel Sachs, and was later home to several publishing houses. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story brick building was constructed c. 1850 for Peter Goelet. During the Civil War, this building was the home of the Hall of the Loyal National League, for which James A. Roosevelt served as secretary. A premier photographer of the late 1800s was also located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed in the Greek Revival Style in 1844-45 as a private residence by Peter Stuyvesant, a direct descendant of the last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam. It later became the home and studio of famed Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. In the 1940s, Selma Hortense Burke lived and worked. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story apartment building was designed in 1940 by H.I. Feldman in the Art Deco/Arte Moderne style. A now-demolished building on this lot was home to the New York Society Library, the first library in New York. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eleven-story neo-Renaissance style loft building was constructed in 1902 by architect Frank Goodwillie and builder Isaac A. Hopper & Son for the Thirteenth Street Co.. Local 1L of the Amalgamated Lithographers of America (ALA) is located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed by William Rouse and Sloan in the Chateauesque style, this nine-story loft building was constructed in 1907. It was the home of a clothing manufacturer whose owner was President of the second Jewish congregation established in NYC. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 12-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1906 by George Anderson for E.J. Galway Building Co. The building is clad in ashlar stone and has minimal classical decorative elements.

Among the many industries which this area played a significant role in shaping and transforming was photography. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This two-story firehouse was constructed in 1928 for the New York City Fire Department (originally Hook & Ladder Co. No. 3) by architect John R. Sliney. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story, two bay Beaux Arts style structure was constructed in 1902 by architect Frederick C. Browne for Philip Braender. It was home to several dance studios and a printer started by a notable

Several key individuals, organizations, and meeting spaces connected to LGBTQ history were located here, including the headquarters of the country's first national LGBTQ rights organization, and prominent writers, artists, musicians, and performers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This building was constructed in 1981-85 by architect John Klausz & Seymour Churgin for Ben Hakimian.

The 8-story residential structure here built c. 2011 replaced a two-story Art Moderne structure built in 1938 for the Schrafft’s Restaurant chain. It later housed the Lone Star Café, New York’s premiere country music venue which also showcased rock, blues, and soul artists like James Brown. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This twelve-story brick and stone apartment building was designed by Sugarman and Berger in 1929. The firm designed several landmarked buildings throughout Manhattan, as well as the New Yorker Hotel. Renowned Egyptologist, author, and curator William C. Hayes lived here until his death in 1963. He worked as a consultant on Cecil B. DeMille’s lucrative final film The Ten Commandments. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story Neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Schickel & Ditmars for Samuel Sachs. The German-born William Schickel was the architect of many other notable buildings, including the German Library and Dispensary. This building became home to the first 12-track recording studio in the country. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story building was constructed c. 1851-52 for Benjamin Valentine. The Fourth International Socialist Worker’s Party Bookstore and Samuel Roth’s Book Store were located here. Roth was known best for publishing unauthorized excerpts of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story building, designed by architect Griffith Thomas, was built in 1866. Its facade features historic cast-iron piers. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Webster Hall was designed by Charles Rentz, Jr. in the Queen Anne style in 1886 with an annex from 1892. As a gathering spot for nearly a century and a half, it has been the scene of an extraordinary array of history in terms of left wing, progressive, and labor organizing; early LGBTQ gatherings; and musical recordings and performances. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This tan five-story brick building, which shows characteristics of the Art Deco style, was designed by architect William Whitehill for the New York Edison Company in 1922. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The eleven-story Renaissance Revival building at 830 Broadway was built in 1897 and designed by Cleverdon & Putzel. A Book Row seller was located at the previous building at this site. Its neighbor at 832-834 Broadway was designed in 1896 by Ralph S. Townsend for the Commercial Realty and Improvement Company, also in the Renaissance Revival style. Both feature cast-iron storefronts. 832-834 housed several apparel manufacturers and was the site of a prominent shirtwaist strike and picket line. The building also housed a series of publishing companies, many of which were associated with the Communist Party U.S.A. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This cast iron building was designed in 1868 in the Italianate/French Second Empire style by architect John Kellum for James McCreery. It was once home to the city’s most elegant department store, James McCreery & Co. Dry Goods, and introduced several important innovations in department storefront sales. It suffered multiple devastating fires over the years, but was saved from demolition by its resilient cast-iron frame and an innovative plan in the early 1970s to convert the building to residences — the first such legal conversion of a manufacturing loft building in New York, which paved the way for hundreds more in its wake. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The eleven-story Renaissance Revival building at 830 Broadway was built in 1897 and designed by Cleverdon & Putzel. A Book Row seller was located at the previous building at this site. Its neighbor at 832-834 Broadway was designed in 1896 by Ralph S. Townsend for the Commercial Realty and Improvement Company, also in the Renaissance Revival style. Both feature cast-iron storefronts. 832-834 housed several apparel manufacturers and was the site of a prominent shirtwaist strike and picket line. The building also housed a series of publishing companies, many of which were associated with the Communist Party U.S.A. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This complex, the former Hotel Albert, consists of four buildings at 23 East 10th Street/40-52 East 11th Street/65-67 University Place. The first, a set of five-story altered row houses, was designed by James Irving Howard and constructed by Albert Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum also constructed the second building, an eight-story “French Flat” designed by Henry Hardenbergh. Originally used for residential purposes, this building was innovative in its use of apartment house design for middle- or upper-class residents. Buchman & Fox architects designed a twelve-story Beaux-Arts style extension. The final section, a six-story neo-Colonial building, was designed by William L. Bottomly and the firm of Sugarman & Hess. The buildings were constructed in 1875-76, 1881-82, 1903-1904, and 1922-1924, respectively. From the 1880s through the early 1970s, the Hotel played a large role in New York City’s cultural life. During the postwar era, prominent painters, writers, photographers, and musicians found inspiration at the hotel. Queer and African-American artists established communities here, as did radical, Jewish, and working-class organizations such as the Progressive Labor Party. For a brief period, the hotel hosted dramatic productions at the “Albert Theatre.” Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Several sites with noteworthy histories connected to the Civil War were located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This four-story Greek Revival row house was built in 1847-48 by Henry Brevoort, though Mrs. Renwick became the owner in 1848. Along with 100 Fourth Avenue it is the sole survivor of a row of at least eight such houses which once lined this section of Fourth Avenue. It was the home of a famed Book Row seller, as well as a renowned photographer who documented African American life and subjects, in addition to leftist/labor themes. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The 1902 eleven-story Renaissance Revival style building at 826 Broadway was constructed for the National Realty Company by architect William H. Birkmire and builder John H. Parker. The Strand Bookstore, one of the last of the “Book Row” sellers, has been here since 1957. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This lot includes two buildings. 835 Broadway was constructed c. 1850-54 by Abraham Valentine, and housed inventor James Lidgerwood and 19th century photographer James Henry Wright. 58 East 13th Street was constructed c. 1853 by Abraham Valentine and housed the National Academy of Design, the first institution in the United States established by and under the exclusive control of professional artists, which included among its members many of the greatest American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This striking six-story loft building, which runs the entire block from Broadway to Fourth Avenue behind Grace Church, was designed in 1887 by James Renwick, noted architect of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Grace Church, along with partners James Lawrence Aspinwall and William Hamilton Russell. The building was home to notable publishers connected to the likes of Norman Rockwell and clothing manufacturers. It was the scene of significant labor disputes, and played a pivotal role in Caleb Carr’s mystery novel The Alienist. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Several notable preservation battles have taken place in these blocks, in both the recent and more distant past, as great works of architecture or places of historic significance have faced the wrecking ball. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square.

This building was likely constructed c. 1845-46 by a local builder for John W. Hoyt. It was likely a single-family rowhouse before being refaced in 1929-33 with a Mediterranean-style facade. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 12-story building was constructed in 1929 by architect Seelig & Finkelstein for Charles Fleisher & Morris Rosen. The New York Foundling, one of New York City’s oldest and largest child welfare agencies, opened in 1869 at a now-demolished building at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eleven-story complex was built in 1923 by Harvey Wiley Corbett and Wallace K. Harrison. Classical details, combined with modernist geometric elements, characterize Corbett and Harrison’s architecture as some of the most influential of the mid-20th century. A renowned indie-rock singer and Tony-Award winning playwright called this building home. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This twelve-story structure was constructed as manufacturing lofts in 1908 by renowned architect Schwartz & Gross for the Brevoort Construction Co. Several Trotskyite organizations were located here, and the weekly organ of the Workers Party of the U.S., the New Militant, was published at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This digital tour focuses on one of the most significant recording studios of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which was located here and produced a stunning array of notable recordings over nearly three decades. Listen to a playlist featuring a selection of songs by some of the amazing artists connected to RPM Studios and the south of Union Square neighborhood. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This six-story brick building was designed by Benjamin E. Lowe in 1889 in the Romanesque Revival style. Artist Robert Indiana had a studio here, the influential avant-garde Reuben Gallery was located here, Grove Press owner Barney Rosset lived here for decades until his death, and a prominent Book Row seller was also located at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This seven-story building was erected in 1874 by Edward Kearney for Joseph M. Dunne. Originally it was used as a stable and auction house for horse carriages. Prominent piano felt manufacturers Alfred Dolge and Son and the American Felt Company were both located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This area was home to many prominent innovators and leaders in the field of fashion. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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Designed by Renwick, Aspinwall, & Tucker, this seven-story loft building was constructed in 1905 in the neo-Classical style. The building was originally owned by Ida S. Bruch, daughter of William Schlemmer of the notable hardware company Hammacher & Schlemmer. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Several important figures and innovators in the field of dance were located here, including the "Picasso of Dance." Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This red painted brick rowhouse was constructed in 1854 for J. Butler. It served as a meeting house for the Transport Workers Union. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story loft building was designed in 1896 by Cleverdon & Putzel for Louis Cohen. It features elaborate ironwork — likely cast-iron — on the first two stories. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story, two bay Beaux Arts style structure was constructed in 1902 by architect Frederick C. Browne for Philip Braender. It was home to several dance studios and a printer started by a notable

Constructed as a three-story single-family rowhouse, this building was completely refaced sometime after the mid-1980s.

This nine-story loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Rudolph Mueller for Owen Costello.

The area south of Union Square contains a stunning array of residential and commercial architecture from the 19th through the early 20th century. There is a particularly rich array of late 19th and early 20th-century factory/loft/warehouse architecture, in every style from Italianate to Gothic and Romanesque Revival, Neo-classical, Queen Anne, Victorian, and Byzantine. Work by some of America’s greatest architects, including James Renwick Jr., Henry J. Hardenbergh, Emery Roth, Griffith Thomas, Napoleon LeBrun, Harvey Wiley Corbett, David, and John Jardine, George B. Post, Carrere and Hastings, John Kellum, and Charles Rentz, among others, can be found here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This 12-story apartment building constructed ca.1985 replaced a building which housed the Hansa Gallery, one of the “East 10th Street Galleries” started by Wolf Kahn. A prominent Book Row seller was also located at a building formerly here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This area served as a home to many prominent German and German-American businesses which shaped New York in the 19th and 20th centuries. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

These twin loft buildings were designed by Griffith Thomas in the Italianate style, with neo-Grec elements and cast-iron piers. They were constructed in 1866 by Pierre Lorillard III, grandson of the noted tobacco manufacturer Pierre Lorillard I. The Wheeler & Wilson Company, which revolutionized clothing manufacturing, was headquartered here, and the buildings were later the center of New York’s antique district. Several leading abstract expressionist painters and art world figures established their homes or studios in the buildings. Pop star Cyndi Lauper lived here, and tryouts for Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue also took place here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 1927, 20-story building was designed by Emory Roth for the Broadway and Fourteenth Development Corporation, owned by the Roosevelt family. Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt’s mansion was previously located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story brick building was constructed in 1845 on land owned by the Stuyvesant Family. One of the most popular athletes in the United States in the late nineteenth century later opened a sporting club here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story neo-Classical building was constructed in 1889 and designed by William C. Hazlett. For at least sixty years, it housed the offices of the Textile Workers Union of America. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A vast array of people who made a mark in the field of politics had connections to this area, including many notable "firsts" to run for or win office. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This fifteen-story building is the New School’s first dormitory, completed in 1989 by architect Prentice Chan Ohlhausen.

This four-story building may date to as early as 1852, but does not appear to retain any mid-19th century detail.

This L-shaped 12-story loft building was designed in 1910 by Maynicke & Frank for Henry Corn with secessionist style motifs. It housed a noted venue for film showings, lectures, and other gatherings related to left-wing causes, attracting the likes of Paul Robeson but also FBI and House Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigations. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This seven-story neo-Classical/Romanesque style loft building was designed in 1894 by Cleverdon & Putzel for Philip Braender. It features richly detailed cast-iron work on the first two floors. Since 1940 the ground floor has housed the family-owned business Seidenberg Antiques. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story loft building was designed in 1898 by architect William J. Dilthey for McKinney & Von Schow. The building features a strong classical vocabulary in its decorative elements, including a rusticated second floor and paired arched windows at the sixth and eighth floors. It was the home of a Book Row seller, and an influential Italian anti-Fascist publication founded and published by a prominent member of the Democratic Socialist Party of Italy. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Louis Korn designed this eight-story loft building in 1897, which combines neo-Renaissance and neo-Romanesque styles. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story loft building with modern cladding was designed by architect Isidore Fried in 1906. It housed several influential galleries which were part of the 10th Street Galleries of the 1950s.

This five-story building was constructed as a single-family rowhouse in 1849-50 for Lorenzo D. Burdett. It housed the record shop Footlight Records, and a Puerto Rican club, cafe, theater, and gallery. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The St. Denis Hotel was located at this site until it was demolished in 2019. Completed in 1853 by architect and James Renwick, it was one of the grandest hotels in the country, and was frequented by U.S. Presidents and prominent political figures, writers, musicians, inventors, actors, entertainers, artists, publishers, and agitators. It also played a significant role in the city’s African American, women’s, and leftist/labor history. Prior to the hotel’s demolition, Village Preservation and others led a campaign to landmark the building and its surroundings. In 2019 the St. Denis was demolished, with the new office tower replacing it. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story loft building was designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Stephen Hatch in 1893. It was built on the site of the former mansion of Theodore Roosevelt’s grandfather. Many clothing manufacturers were located here, as well as a pioneering company in the commercial motion-picture industry. The building also housed the offices of the radical and experimental Grove Press, and a Book Row seller. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Constructed in 1906 for Richman Realty & Construction Company, this eleven-story loft building was designed by Samuel Sass. It features a two-story cast-iron base. This was the home of one of Book Row’s longest-running shops, which featured an extensive selection of books by Black authors and on subjects including Black Studies, radicalism, socialism, and the political left. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This Old Law tenement was built by John P. Schuchman, a pillar in the neighborhood’s German-American community and a member of the Tenement House Committee in the 1890s. The building was designed by notable architect John G. Prague and contained amenities for residents not typical of and not yet required for tenements. It later housed a legendary shop selling vintage fashion magazines and photographs. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Two buildings were constructed at this site in 1853 by George Law, and there is evidence they have operated as a theater since at least the 1920s. Since 1973, the ground floor of this building has been home to the Classic Stage Company, one of New York’s oldest continuously operating Off Broadway theaters. A lithographer who produced piano sheet music was also located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story Arts & Crafts style loft building was designed by Robinson & Potter in 1905-1906. Now residences, it is known as the Petersfield, after the nearby country estate of Petrus Stuyvesant, grandson of Governor Peter Stuyvesant, who once owned the land upon which it stands. It was also the home of a Book Row seller specializing in the occult, New Age, and Eastern philosophy. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Village Preservation has multiple oral histories with significant figures in the arts, literature, commerce, preservation, activism, and philanthropy which focus on, connect to, or mention sites in this area. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

These twin loft buildings were designed by Griffith Thomas in the Italianate style, with neo-Grec elements and cast-iron piers. They were constructed in 1866 by Pierre Lorillard III, grandson of the noted tobacco manufacturer Pierre Lorillard I. The Wheeler & Wilson Company, which revolutionized clothing manufacturing, was headquartered here, and the buildings were later the center of New York’s antique district. Several leading abstract expressionist painters and art world figures established their homes or studios in the buildings. Pop star Cyndi Lauper lived here, and tryouts for Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue also took place here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Cleverdon & Putzel designed this seven-story Romanesque Revival loft building in 1894. Its bays feature intact cast-iron. In the late 19th century, the building served as a boarding house run by United Hebrew Charities. In the 1970s, it was home to the Film & Dance Theater, as well as the radical Workers Laboratory Theatre. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A surprising number of innovative housing developments from the late 19th and early 20th centuries can be found here, including several ‘French Flats’ and model tenements. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This stunning 1893 Romanesque Revival style office building was designed by Cleverdon & Putzel as the headquarters of Appleton & Co. publishers, one of the largest and most prestigious in the country. \#leftistandlabor

This lot comprises two buildings. No. 52 East 13th Street was built in 1893 and designed by architect Renwick, Aspinwall & Renwick for E.T. Gerry. No. 54 was built in 1852 for Peter Goelet. They have since been combined as one and refaced.

This elaborately-detailed Renaissance Revival style office building at 80-82 Fifth Avenue/2-4 West 14th Street was designed in 1908 by Buchman and Fox. It housed the headquarters of the nation’s first gay rights organization, along with trailblazing labor, civil rights, and social justice organizations. \#leftistandlabor

Constructed in 1896 in the Romanesque Revival style, this nine-story brick through-block building was designed by architect Albert Wagner, and features a cast-iron storefront. One of the first tenants was Richard E. Thibaut’s Art Wallpapers, known as the “world’s largest manufacturer of wallpaper.” It housed the National Negro Congress and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), and various other leftist organizations. The Communist Workers’ bookshop and the Jewish Daily Freiheit newspaper were located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A two-story structure was present on this lot as early as 1885. The Reform Jewish congregation The Village Temple Congregation B’nai Israel moved here in 1957. In 2007, the façade of the structure was modernized by architect Lee H. Skolnick. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This seven-story Beaux Arts Belle Epoque structure, featuring terra cotta and cast iron, was constructed in 1892-93. It was designed by De Lemos & Cornes for G. Gennert, a photographic materials company founded by two German immigrant brothers. The building also housed stained glass artisans Heinigke & Bowen, whose designs decorated the Library of Congress and Carnegie Hall. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This two-story building was likely originally constructed as a four-story Greek Revival rowhouse in 1846-47 for Peter Lorillard Jr.. It housed a gallery specializing in photography by gay male artists, including Robert Mapplethorpe, and the influential publishing house Grove Press. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

825 Broadway/49 East 12th Street was constructed c. 1961 by architect Max M. Simon for Jack Sobel. It has facades on both Broadway and East 12th Street.

This building was constructed in 1946 by architect Harrison & Abramovitz for the Fairchild Press, and altered in the early 2000s. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This began as a four story private house built in 1840 with a fifth floor added in 1880 and the two story commercial addition in front added in 1919. It housed one of New York’s most prominent philanthropists of the 19th century who helped establish some of the city’s great institutions, later serving as the home to a family of German immigrant entrepreneurs. The commercial space housed one of the city’s most popular speakeasies, and later a lesbian bar frequented by well-know authors. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This Italianate style rowhouse was built c. 1853 by philanthropist and bibliophile James Lenox for residential use. For generations, it was home to a family that was among the most important American patrons of the arts of the 19th century, and included significant figures in the fields of science, philanthropy, business, and government. In later years it also housed a prominent publisher, bookseller, and artist studios. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This Greek Revival rowhouse was constructed c. 1838-40 by John H. Cornell, believed to be a high-ranking officer at the Mechanic’s Banking Association on Wall Street. It became the residence of N.H. Wolfe, owner of the oldest flour and grain company in New York. A celebrated World War II entertainment venue for GIs was also located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eleven-story building with Romanesque Revival details was constructed in 1925 by Sugarmann & Berger for the 60 University Place Corp. The firm also designed a number of historic and landmarked buildings on the Upper West Side, in Gramercy Park, and in Greenwich Village.

This site was until 2015 the home of the original Bowlmor Lanes, the first bowling alley in what eventually became a chain of upscale bowling alleys that transformed the sport. It was sold for development and demolished, replaced by the 21 story condo tower there today. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed by Buchman & Fox, this ten-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1903 for builder Jeremiah C. Lyons. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 12-story apartment building constructed ca.1985 replaced a building which housed the Hansa Gallery, one of the “East 10th Street Galleries” started by Wolf Kahn. A prominent Book Row seller was also located at a building formerly here.

"The Lancaster", a five-story building was constructed in 1887 in a combination of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. Noted architect James Renwick designed the building along with his partners Aspinwall & Russell, and it is an innovative example of the French Flat middle-class apartment building. Lyric poet Barbara Young is among the building’s prominent residents. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Many of the most prominent publishers in America and the world were located here, producing some of the most significant works of literature of the last two hundred years. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This five-story 1845-47 rowhouse was originally constructed for James Brown and Edward Boonen Graves. It was home to a club which included a who’s who of labor, political, and social reform leaders of the turn of the last century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This seven-story Renaissance Revival style loft building was constructed in 1895 and designed by Louis Korn. It is noteworthy for its combination of lacy decorative ironwork and robust stone architecture, and was home to two highly significant entities in the history of photography. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Constructed in 1896 in the Romanesque Revival style, this nine-story brick through-block building was designed by architect Albert Wagner, and features a cast-iron storefront. One of the first tenants was Richard E. Thibaut’s Art Wallpapers, known as the “world’s largest manufacturer of wallpaper.” It housed the National Negro Congress and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), and various other leftist organizations. The Communist Workers’ bookshop and the Jewish Daily Freiheit newspaper were located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story loft building was constructed in 1888 by architect G.A. Schellenger for John Glass & Son. For decades it served as the headquarters and printing plant of the fashion publisher Fairchild Publishing, producer of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), among other publications. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story apartment building was constructed in 1929 by architect Charles F. Winkelman for The 42 East 11th St. Hotel Corp. Winkelman was the architect of several buildings in the adjacent Greenwich Village Historic District, including the Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue and the former “Holley Chambers” Apartment Hotel.

This striking 12-story Beaux Arts style office building was constructed in 1912 for publisher George Plimpton. It housed an extraordinary array of civil rights and social justice organizations, philanthropic groups, publishers, and non-governmental organizations. This includes the headquarters of the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organizations, the publishers of the first magazines for an African-American audience and for African-American children, and what would become the American Civil Liberties Union, among many other entities. The building was designated as a New York City Landmark in 2021. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Multiple sites in the neighborhood bear significant connections to popular films, television, music, and entertainment. Listen to a playlist featuring a selection of songs by some of the amazing artists connected to this area. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

In spite of massive waves of commercial construction, tenement building, and later hotel and apartment building construction which swept through this neighborhood, the area retains dozens of rowhouses from its early stages of development, dating from the early 1830s to the early 1850s. They range from modest to grand, most in the Greek Revival or Italianate style. Reflecting the vast forces of change which swept through the area, none remained single family houses, taking on new lives housing commerce, unions, theaters, art galleries, and multiple tenants. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This building was originally constructed in the mid-19th century and altered in 1927 to the designs of architect Sidney Daub. It was the home of a prominent Book Row seller whose customers included Oklahoma’s first Senator Thomas Pryor Gore, Theodore Dreiser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, and Ethel Barrymore. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

825 Broadway/49 East 12th Street was constructed c. 1961 by architect Max M. Simon for Jack Sobel. It has facades on both Broadway and East 12th Street.

This area was a mecca for leftist and labor organizing, with many of the most significant figures and organizations of the 19th and 20th centuries located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This brick building was built in 1873 for John A. Hadden, and designed by William Field and Son. Its original four floors feature a cast-iron front. A three-story glass addition was designed by Phillip Wu of io architects in 2008. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Multiple innovators in the field of commerce were located here, once the center of commerce in New York, along with the headquarters of several prominent businesses. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

Originally built in 1869-70 as a pair of six- and seven-story loft buildings, the current façade and four-story height of this structure dates to 1958, just before the influential publishing house Grove Press moved here. The original 6-story building at 66-68 University Place, which forms the northern two-thirds of the current building, was built by architect Chapin and builder Stewart & Smith in 1869-70. It originally served as the factory and office of Hazelton Brothers, a piano manufacturing firm, for a half-century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed as a three-story private rowhouse for J.F. Hart c. 1853-54. It later became the St. Lawrence Hotel, and housed the Gennert Brothers Photo Supply, founded by German immigrant Gottlieb Gennert and his brother. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Some of New York's most prominent and impactful philanthropists, and philanthropic organizations, were located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This altered Arts & Crafts style rowhouse was built c. 1852 by philanthropist and bibliophile James Lenox. It was the home of congressman, conservationist, and Civil War Unionist Robert B. Roosevelt, as well as the groundbreaking Pearson’s Magazine and bookstore. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

An incredible array of sites in the area are connected to the great artists and art movements of the last century and a half. In the mid-20th century, this area was ground zero for the New York School of artists, who shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This corner lot consists of a one story, red brick commercial building with metal paned windows, likely constructed in 1984. A prominent Book Row seller operated out of the building formerly located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

22 East 13th Street is an altered c. 1846-47 Greek Revival house built for Mr. Scudder. It formerly housed the Erskine Press. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This almost perfectly intact thirteen-story terra cotta-covered loft building was designed and constructed by Starrett & Van Vleck in 1919 to house the International Tailoring Company. Herman Melville lived in a now-demolished townhouse at this location, during which time he began writing Moby Dick. Book Row sellers operated out of the current and former buildings at this site, and a gallery was located here in the 1970s. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 8-story National Registers of Historic Places-listed building was constructed as the headquarters of the prominent publishers Macmillan Co. in 1923-24 by the preeminent architectural firms of Carrere & Hastings and Shreve Lamb & Blake. While here, Macmillan published the Civil War-based Gone With the Wind. It later served as the headquarters of Forbes Magazine and the Forbes Gallery. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The two eight-story lofts at No. 39-41 and No. 43-45 East 12th Street were designed by Cleverdon & Putzel in 1893 and 1895 for Phillip Braender and Louis Cohen. They feature a Romanesque Revival style and cast-iron bases. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The area south of Union Square is one of New York’s main centers of cast iron architecture, from some of its earliest surviving fully cast-iron buildings to predominantly masonry buildings with distinctive and elaborate cast iron ground floors or ornament. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

Grace Church was built in 1846-47 by famed architect James Renwick, Jr and designated an individual NYC landmark in 1966. The immensely popular Fleischmann’s Model Vienna Bakery, from which the term “breadline” originates, was once located on part of this lot. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This two-story neo-Renaissance style, galvanized iron-faced commercial building was constructed in 1897 by architect John C. Westervelt for the Roosevelt family. By 1910 it housed a branch of the Childs Restaurant, one of the first restaurant chains in America, whose later Coney Island building is a New York City landmark. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The new building permit for this structure was filed in 2015 by architects Morris Adjmi for 116 University Development LLC.

This eleven-story building was designed in 1906 by Knight and Collins for the American Felt Company. As the primary felt producer for Steinway, the company played a major role in the piano industry in the early 1900s. Later the building housed several significant printers and bookbinders. After its conversion into apartments, prominent actors, writers, and a counterculture icon lived here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Many generations of the Roosevelt family lived here, had significant holdings here, and developed many of the existing buildings here. During this time, they achieved numerous notable accomplishments in the fields of politics, literature, diplomacy, and environmental protection. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

The Gothic Revival buildings at 92-98 Fourth Avenue were designated individual NYC landmarks in 1977. No. 92 was built in 1902 as the Grace Church clergy house by the architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge. Grace Memorial House at No. 94-96 was built in 1882-83 and designed by James Renwick, Jr. No. 98 was built 1906-07 and designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker in the Gothic Revival style within the Tudor tradition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This elaborately-detailed Renaissance Revival style office building at 80-82 Fifth Avenue/2-4 West 14th Street was designed in 1908 by Buchman and Fox. It housed the headquarters of the nation’s first gay rights organization, along with trailblazing labor, civil rights, and social justice organizations. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed by Emery Roth, this thirteen-story residential building at 28 East 10th Street/47-59 University Place is known as Devonshire House and was constructed in 1928. Roth also designed the landmarked El Dorado, Beresford, Normandy, and Oliver Cromwell apartments on the Upper West Side, the St. Moritz and the Ritz in Midtown, and 888 Grand Concourse, as well as the nearby 1 University Place and 59 West 12th Street. A number of renowned actors, an episode of Seinfeld, a "Golden Age" comic book series, a Dutch filmmaker, and a significant NYPL donor are associated with this building. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed in 1926 by Sugarman and Berger, this twelve-story residential building features neo-Romanesque and Byzantine style elements. Among its notable residents was the Tony-award winning choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille. Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City, lived here as well. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 1912, 18-story neo-Renaissance style manufacturing/office building was designed by architect Maynicke & Franke for Henry Corn. The building was home to recording studios that launched the careers of enormously important jazz and blues musicians and to the publisher of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique as well as many other important texts. The building replaced James Lenox’s mansion, which became home to the Lenox Library and the Juilliard School. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The 15-story black steel and glass office tower built here in 2019 is emblematic of the highly uncontextual new development rising in this area. It replaced a five-story, cast-iron warehouse constructed in 1887.

812 Broadway, a five-story building designed in the Italianate style, was constructed in 1855-56 by renowned architect Griffith Thomas. A highly esteemed Hudson River School and Luminist painter had a studio here at the height of his career. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Designed in the Renaissance Revival style for Henry Corn, this 12-story commercial building was constructed in 1899-1901. Its architect, the German-born Robert Maynicke, was also responsible for the Guggenheimer Building, the New York Times and Havemeyer Buildings, as well as the New York Produce and Cotton Exchanges. Several garment factories and showrooms were located here throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

An extraordinary array of significant writers and authors lived or worked here, and great works of literature were produced here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This now-seven-story neo-Classical style building was owned and constructed by the New York Edison Company, today known as Con Edison, in 1904. It served as an electric transformer and distributing station. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was originally constructed c. 1837 as a three-story brick rowhouse with a raised basement for Samuel Secor. As of 2012, the brick was painted and refaced with Neo-Grec detailing, which was then refaced with modern cladding. During the mid-20th century, the building housed the Tribal Arts Gallery and Off-Bowery Theater. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed as part of a row of five-story Greek Revival rowhouses erected for John Morse c. 1843-44. This was the home of the union organizer and civil rights advocate David Livingston, a confidante of Martin Luther King Jr., and the noted jazz club Bradley’s. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This striking six-story loft building, which runs the entire block from Broadway to Fourth Avenue behind Grace Church, was designed in 1887 by James Renwick, noted architect of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Grace Church, along with partners James Lawrence Aspinwall and William Hamilton Russell. The building was home to notable publishers connected to the likes of Norman Rockwell and clothing manufacturers. It was the scene of significant labor disputes, and played a pivotal role in Caleb Carr’s mystery novel The Alienist. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This largely intact c. 1845-1846 Greek Revival rowhouse was constructed for the prominent businessman and philanthropist John Schermerhorn Bussing. The building was the home of notable artists, filmmakers, and the pro-union composer Marc Blitzstein. It also housed the workrooms and showrooms of a renowned fashion designer, and an archive dedicated to the prominent African American jazz musician Milton Hinton. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The three-story Beaux-Arts building at 126-128 East 13th Street was designed in 1903 by architects Jardine, Kent & Jardine as an auction mart for horses and then automobiles. The part of the building facing East 12th Street dates to 1890. No. 126-128 housed a vocational school for women during World War II and was the studio for over a quarter century of noted artist Frank Stella. It was saved from planned demolition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story plus raised basement Italianate style rowhouse was built in 1851-52 for Stephen Bursh. Famed abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock and African American music collector Lawrence Gellert both lived here, and a Depression-era Artists and Writers Dinner Club was located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Prominent Irish immigrants and Irish Americans made a mark in the area South of Union Square, especially in the realms of politics, the arts, commerce, and literature.

88 Fourth Avenue was erected in 1902 as the Grace Church Choir School. It was designed with Gothic motifs by the architectural firm of Heins and LaFarge, winners of the original competition for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Both No. 88 and 90 are part of the Grace Church individual NYC landmark designated in 1966. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This site originally held a two-story stable, built as early as 1868. It appears that three more stories were added in 1893. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed c. 1845-46 for D.L. Schenck. It was likely originally a single-family rowhouse before being refaced in 1929-33 with a Mediterranean-style facade. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

The two-story Cooper Station Post Office was designed by Louis A. Simon in 1936-37 for the Works Progress Administration in a Classical Revival/Art Moderne style. The Seinfeld character Newman is supposed to have worked here, and a number of Book Row sellers were housed in buildings previously located at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Grove Press, called “the era’s most explosive and influential publishing house” and “the most innovative publisher of the postwar era,” produced incredibly important pieces of 20th century literature while working aggressively and effectively to transform American culture in relation to issues of censorship, sexuality, race, and class. Founded in 1947 on Grove Street in the West Village, Grove Press fully rose to prominence after it was purchased by Barney Rossett in 1951. Over the next decades, an astonishing five extant buildings in the area south of Union Square were home to the Press, its literary magazine the Evergreen Review, and the Press’ Evergreen Theater. A sixth building in the area, 61 Fourth Avenue, served as Rosset’s home from at least 1981 until Rosset’s passing in 2012. For a time, Grove Press’ offices were also located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This L-shaped 12-story loft building was designed in 1910 by Maynicke & Franke for Henry Corn with secessionist style motifs. It housed a noted venue for film showings, lectures, and other gatherings related to left-wing causes, attracting the likes of Paul Robeson but also FBI and House Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigations. \#leftistandlabor Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This ten-story neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1900 by builder Edward Smith for Owen Costello.

This three-story building was constructed c. 1852-53 for Emanuel Schwartz. It was the home of Adolph’s Asti Restaurant, featured in the 1988 movie Big. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This twelve-story neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1902 by Goldwin Starrett for the Empire Realty Corporation. Starrett was a partner in the notable architecture firm of Starrett & Van Vleck.

Constructed by Marc Eidlitz and M. Magrath in 1878, this five-story cast-iron store and loft building features a neo-Grec design. In the 1880s, the building was owned by Gilded Age barons Robert and Ogden Goelet. The Wheeler & Wilson Company, which revolutionized clothing manufacturing, also made its home here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed as part of a row of five-story Greek Revival rowhouses erected for John Morse c. 1843-44. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Born James Thomas Harris (1855-1931), in Galway, Ireland Frank Harris was an Irish immigrant who became a naturalized U.S. citizen during his editorship of Pearson’s Magazine, was a noted author, journalist, editor, publisher, and provocateur. His autobiographical My Life and Loves was banned in the United States and Britain for 40 years due to its sexual content. In addition to publishing this and Pearson’s, Harris wrote two books about Shakespeare and biographies of his friends, the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. Wilde, who was found guilty of engaging in acts of “gross indecency” in 1895, became an icon in the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Harris’ close friendship with Wilde is portrayed in Moises Kaufman’s Gross Indecencies: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, as well as several other literary portrayals of Wilde’s life.

Designed by Marsh, Israels, & Harder, this seven-story Beaux Arts style warehouse at 127-135 Fourth Avenue/100-104 East 13th Street was built in 1895 by George W. Levy. It housed New York’s first hardware store, Hammacher Schlemmer, which published what has become the country’s longest running catalog. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story neo-Classical/Romanesque Revival style loft building was constructed in 1898 by Farnsworth & Miller for Frank Brettell.

The area is home to a number of significant sites to the history of film, including a large number of current and former movie houses, film producers, and organizations which shaped the course of film history in the United States. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This contemporary building was constructed in 2010-11 by Isaac & Stern Architects for the 791 Broadway LLC. The previous four-story building, a 19th century rowhouse, was demolished in 2009.

This area was home to several sites connected to significant developments in African American history, including civil rights leaders and organizations, musicians, and writers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

The "New York School," a groundbreaking group of writers and artists who collaborated across disciplines, was rooted in the neighborhood south of Union Square in the mid-20th century. This loosely defined but transformative collective is credited with shifting the center of the art world from Paris to New York.

This lot includes two buildings. 835 Broadway was constructed c. 1850-54 by Abraham Valentine, and housed inventor James Lidgerwood and 19th century photographer James Henry Wright. 58 East 13th Street was constructed c. 1853 by Abraham Valentine and housed the National Academy of Design, the first institution in the United States established by and under the exclusive control of professional artists, which included among its members many of the greatest American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 12-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1906 by the prolific firm of Sass & Smallheiser for Middleboro and Master Builders Realty Co. Sought after recording studio RPM Studios was located here, where a dazzling array of musical acts recorded. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story building was constructed in 1929 by architect William Shary for the 70 East 11th Street Corporation. It originally served as a parking garage.

This 7-story Romanesque Revival style loft was built in 1894 for Leopold R. True by Louis Korn, architect of many landmarked NYC buildings. Graphic designer and artist Stanley Glaubach had a studio here and Charles Cheriff Galleries was located here for nearly a century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This originally two-story building was constructed c. 1880 for T.F. Sturges, and expanded to the current three stories in 1894. Around 1967, the influential publishing house Grove Press opened an office here, where it began operating the Evergreen Theatre for films and live productions. It now houses the New York Baha’i Center. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Constructed in 1895-98 in the Renaissance Revival style, this fourteen-story structure was designed by George B. Post for William Weld. It housed various clothing companies, including Meyer Jonasson & Company, then known as “the world’s largest manufacturer of ladies’ garments.” Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story loft building, with a later one-story rooftop addition, was constructed in 1888 by David and John Jardine. The architects also designed the landmarked former Van Tassel & Kearney Horse Auction Mart next door. A cast-iron base adorns the building, which is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This area was a center of theater and home to many experimental and innovative theaters, large and small, several of which still survive to this day. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This rowhouse was constructed c. 1851-52 for Jacob Story.

Designed by Thomas O’Connor, this four-story neo-Grec structure was constructed in 1873 for John McIntyre. It was the headquarters of the publishers Ward, Locke, and Bowden, who published Lewis Carroll and Oscar Wilde, as well as Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This four-story, two bay rowhouse was built c. 1870 by architect W. Field & Son for Henry Nailer (or Naylor). From 1953 to 1957, this was the home and studio of abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline. It is featured in the Season 4 premiere of Sex and the City. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This largely intact Greek Revival rowhouse was built c. 1845-1846 for Peter R. Bonnett. The building housed the workrooms and showrooms of a renowned fashion designer and an abstract expressionist gallery. It also served as the home of the prominent artist Rosemarie Beck and editor Robert Phelps. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This landmarked six-story brick store and loft building was designed by Stephen Decatur Hatch in 1876. Its facade is clad in historic cast-iron, and the building features neo-Grec, Second Empire, and Renaissance Revival style elements. Workers at the clothing manufacturer Freigat & Keim, also located here, participated in the historic shirtwaist strike of 1909-10. Judge James Roosevelt, noted Supreme Court justice and relative of Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, resided here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 12-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1908 by the prolific firm of Sass & Smallheiser for Middleboro and Master Builders Realty Co. Noted photographer Charles Gatewood maintained a studio here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A look at some of the architecturally, historically, and culturally significant buildings once located in this area. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square.

This large, x-shaped apartment building was constructed in 1957 as The Greenwich Arms by architect H.I. Feldman for the East 10th Street Corporation. A number of Book Row sellers were located at buildings previously at this site, as well as the building currently here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This three-story with raised basement Greek Revival rowhouse was built in 1837-39 for Charles Devoe. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This 5-story loft with unusual bay windows was built in 1881 for Joseph J. Little, former U.S. Congressman and New York City Board of Education President by architect William Wheeler Smith. Over the years the building housed noted artists, piano manufacturers, and prominent left-wing and labor groups. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story white brick and stone neo-Classical building was constructed in 1897 by architects Neville & Bagge for Jno. K. Todd. It housed clothing manufacturers, the Oakland Chemical Company, multiple publishing companies, a Book Row seller, and “the Library of Science.” Among the publishers was one which re-published a seminal work touted as one of the classics in the 20th century which provided a compelling depiction of Jewish immigrant life on the Lower East Side. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story Gothic Revival structure was built in 1912 to the designs of the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall, and Tucker, the successor firm to James Renwick Jr.’s. Along with 84 Fourth Avenue, it houses Grace Church School and is part of the Grace Church individual NYC landmark designated in 1966. A prominent Book Row seller was located at a previous building at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.