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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

The area around Broadway and University Place became home to some of the city’s most desirable hotels in the mid-19th century as this area began its transition from residential to semi-commercial district. This included the recently-demolished St. Denis Hotel at Broadway and 11th Street, and the Hotel Albert at University Place and 11th Street, now the Albert Apartments. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.