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113-117 East 11th Street
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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.
63 East 9th Street
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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.
816 Broadway
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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.
804 Broadway
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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.
122-124 East 11th Street
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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.
100 Fourth Avenue
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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.
56 Third Avenue
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This three-story brick building was erected in 1906 by architect L. Gilles for Luder Reinken. It was the home of a noted sculptor and housed one of the Tenth Street Galleries, which participated in the emergence of the underground film scene. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
793 Broadway
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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.
Commerce Tour: East of Broadway
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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.
51 East 10th Street
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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.
84 Fourth Avenue
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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.
43-47 East 10th Street
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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.
88 East 10th Street
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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.
810 Broadway
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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.
30 East 10th Street
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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.
34-36 East 10th Street
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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
62 Third Avenue
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This four-story brick rowhouse was built in 1839 for Caleb Bartlett. Until 2016, this building housed the New York Central Art Supply, frequented by a long list of renowned artists. James T. Lee, the grandfather of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, also lived in this building. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
107-109 East 9th Street
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This five-story brick building was constructed in 1853 for Doctor Parker. For many years this building was the home of the Pageant Book and Print Shop, one of the last of the Book Row sellers. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
105 East 9th Street
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This four-story building was constructed pre-1864. Stripped of its original facade, it has minimal design except at the ground level entrance, which has a modern metallic design surrounded by polished stone.
53 East 10th Street
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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.
Webster Hall
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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.
801-807 Broadway
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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.
102 Fourth Avenue
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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.
806-808 Broadway
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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.
41-43 University Place
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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.
61 Fourth Avenue
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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.
60 Third Avenue
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This four-story brick rowhouse was built in 1839 for A. Thompson. A German American illustrator and a family of famed vaudeville performers lived here.
52 Third Avenue
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This three-story building was once two separate structures. Though they were likely constructed in the 19th century, they have since been given a complete 20th-century makeover. A famous shop was formerly located here, and was photographed by a number of prominent photographers.
130 East 12th Street
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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.
34-36 East 10th Street
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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
56 East 11th Street
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This nine-story loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Rudolph Mueller for Owen Costello.
Architecture Tour
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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.
66-70 East 12th Street
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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.
80 Fourth Avenue
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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.
64-66 East 11th Street
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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.
86 East 10th Street
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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.
St. Denis Hotel
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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.
126 East 12th Street
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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.
795 Broadway
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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.
66-70 East 12th Street
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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.
39-41 East 10th Street
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"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.
45 University Place
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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.
60 East 11th Street
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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.
58 Third Avenue
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This four-story rowhouse was built in 1838-39 for James E. Hills. It is among the oldest surviving structures in the area built as a house, and was the site of one of the largest and most prominent tailoring establishments on Third Avenue in the 19th century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
25 East 10th Street
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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.
63 Fourth Avenue
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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.
Leftist and Labor Tour
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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.
Artists Tour
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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.
57 Fourth Avenue
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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.
101-111 Fourth Avenue
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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.
Grace Church
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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.
92-98 Fourth Avenue
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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.
28 East 10th Street
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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.
812 Broadway
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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.
84 East 10th Street
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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.
104-110 Fourth Avenue
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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.
49 East 10th Street
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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.
88-90 Fourth Avenue
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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.
101-111 East 11th Street
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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 Tour
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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.
58 East 11th Street
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This eight-story neo-Classical/Romanesque Revival style loft building was constructed in 1898 by Farnsworth & Miller for Frank Brettell.
791 Broadway
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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.
68 East 11th Street
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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.
32 East 10th Street
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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.
85 Fourth Avenue
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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.
59 Fourth Avenue
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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.
86 Fourth Avenue
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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.
33-45 East 9th Street
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This nine-story neo-Renaissance apartment building was constructed in 1925 and designed by Helmle, Corbett, & Harrison. Architectural renderer Hugh Ferriss, who envisioned urban utopia in his celebrated book The Metropolis of Tomorrow, and the actor who played Mr. Big in Sex and the City, resided here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
71-73 Fourth Avenue
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In 2019, a ten-story concrete residential building was constructed here, replacing a one-story commercial building. The structure was designed by SBLM Architects for Nava Partners, LLC. A number of prominent Book Row sellers were located at buildings previously at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
31-37 East 10th Street
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Designed and constructed in 1894 by William Schickel & Co., this eight-story loft building was built in the neo-Classical style. Schickel, who was German-born, also designed the landmarked German Library and Dispensary at 135-137 Second Avenue. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
55 East 10th Street
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This fifteen-story Gothic Revival building was designed by Victor Farrar in 1929 as an apartment hotel. Among its notable residents were Dr. Otto Nathan, the sole executor of Albert Einstein’s estate, who was subpoenaed and questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee while residing here. During prohibition, the building’s penthouse served as a speakeasy. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
65-69 Fourth Avenue
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This eight-story Renaissance Revival stone loft building was constructed around 1897 for Charles B. and John E. Sagar. Charles Sagar was also the architect. A series of Book Row sellers have operated out of the current and previous buildings. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
38-58 East 10th Street
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This nine-story apartment building was designed by Helme, Corbett, & Harrison and constructed in 1929 in the neo-Renaissance style. The building has served as the home of feminist writer, playwright, and essayist Dawn Powell; Charlotte Curtis, the first woman associate editor of The New York Times; Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell; and theater historian and educator Dr. Nellie McCaslin. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
120 East 12th Street
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This 26-story mega-dorm was built for NYU by Michael Zenreich Architects in 2009. The church tower at this site is the sole remnant of one of the few city structures to serve as a house of worship for the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths. The funeral mass for Andy Warhol film “superstar” Jackie Curtis was held at the church, which Village Preservation tried to save from demolition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
814 Broadway
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814 Broadway is a five-story masonry structure built in 1854. This building has important connections to the Civil War, abolition, the first woman doctor in America, the establishment of the American Red Cross, a prominent umbrella manufacturer, one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States, and the underground/avant garde Downtown film and video scene. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
29 East 10th Street
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This eight-story neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Louis Korn for James McPherson. Korn designed several other buildings in the district including 84 University Place, as well as in the Ladies Mile, Tribeca North, and NoHo Historic Districts.
112 Fourth Avenue
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This five-story Italianate style cast-iron loft building was constructed in 1872 by Griffith Thomas. It was the home of prominent publishers releasing leftist and social-justice-oriented works; one of the first socialist newspapers in America and NY’s first English-language socialist paper; organizations associated with a Zionist youth movement; a uniform manufacturer; a prominent Book Row seller; and a renowned lithographer. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
48 Third Avenue
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This five-story tenement with stores was designed in 1886 by James M. Farnsworth for Samuel Thorne. The unusual red brick building with florid naturalistic ornament housed the March Gallery in the late 1950s, which had a large impact on the mid-20th century art scene. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
76-78 Fourth Avenue
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This is currently an outdoor recreation area owned by Grace Church School.
Stewart House
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Known as Stewart House, this 21-story mid-century modern apartment building was constructed in 1960 and designed by Robert and Sylvan Bien. This structure occupies the entire block, previously occupied by the A.T. Stewart Department Store, built in 1862. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
Renwick Tour
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James Renwick (November 1, 1818 — June 23, 1895) was one of the most influential, accomplished, and skilled American architects of the 19th century. Largely self-taught, he lived and worked most of his life in this area, where his family had deep roots (they were relatives of the landowning Brevoorts). One of his first commissions, Grace Church, is considered among the first to introduce the Gothic Revival style to America, and is still considered one of the style’s greatest examples. While Renwick earned high profile commissions across the country — including St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. — nowhere is his work more represented than in this area south of Union Square, where he designed no fewer than six buildings within a block of the intersection of Broadway and 11th Street, and designed dozens more nearby, including the still-extant ‘Renwick Row’ and ‘Renwick Triangle.’ Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.
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