Manhattan: 10th Street (West) - 6th Avenue

55-43 West 10th Street, north side, just east of Sixth Avenue. No (old No. 15, 10th Street), with the Bell Telephone sign on the stoop is the Tenth Street Studios, Incorporated, the first building to devoted entirely and primarily to artists' studios. St Gaudens and John LaFarge, among other notable artists, have maintained studios in it. Built in 1857 at old 13-21 10th Street (10th Street was numbered east from Sixth Avenue), it will still be standing in 1935.
About 1923.
Gift of E. N. Jenks. Neg. # 570
Slide # 137