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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 apartment building was constructed in 2006 for the 110-112 Third Avenue Realty Corporation by architect Greenberg Farrow. It replaced the Variety Theatre, a 1914 Nickelodeon, moving picture, and Off-Broadway theater, which was demolished despite Village Preservation’s campaign to save it. 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 brownstone five-story building was constructed in 1880 by architect W. Jones for W. Jennings Demorest. It was the home and studio of actor Robert De Niro Jr.’s parents, and perhaps the infant De Niro himself. Painter Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro, Sr. were two people on an almost-unrivaled list of artists to live here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the area south of and around Union Square was the center of piano manufacturing in New York, a huge industry in the city at the time. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This 5-story loft building was designed in 1889 by Albert D’Oench, architect of the nearby Germania Life Insurance Co. Building and several other designated New York City landmarks, for Mary Springler-Van Beueren, one of the last survivors of the Springler-Van Beueren clan, one of the earliest developers of property on 14th Street. The noted publisher Joseph Marshall Stoddart had offices here in the late 19th century, and labor rights and women’s suffrage advocate Robert Ellis Thompson’s “The American: A Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, Art and Finance” was published here. It replaced a building which housed the headquarters of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which crusaded for women’s suffrage and other progressive reforms while also advocating for prohibition on alcohol. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This loft building was designed in 1892 by the firm of Brunner & Tryon for Henry C. Bolton. Arnold Brunner was one of America’s earliest and most prominent Jewish architects. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story loft building was designed by Henri Fouchaux for Henri Miller c. 1900 in the Beaux Arts style. Fouchaux was the architect of many landmarked New York City buildings in Tribeca, Ladies Mile, the Upper West Side, Sugar Hill, and the Jumel Terrace Historic District. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.