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.

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 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.

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 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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 beautifully intact cast-iron structure which dates to 1880 was later owned by W. Jennings Demorest, and in 1891 was extended through block with the construction of a connecting structure at 5 East 13th Street. It served as the headquarters of the New York City Woman Suffrage League, which led the late 19th century effort to extend the vote in New York State to women, while also serving as a home to a variety of significant photographers, artists, philanthropic organizations, and commercial enterprises. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

An extraordinary confluence of organizations and people connected to African American, LGBTQ, Women's, and other civil rights struggles were located here, including some of the most significant in each of these movements. 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.