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.

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 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.

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.