These two eight-story lofts were designed by Cleverdon & Putzel in 1893 and 1895 for Phillip Braender and Louis Cohen. They feature a Romanesque Revival style and cast-iron bases. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story loft building was designed in 1896 by Cleverdon & Putzel for Louis Cohen. It features elaborate ironwork — likely cast-iron — on the first two stories. 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.

The two eight-story lofts at No. 39-41 and No. 43-45 East 12th Street were designed by Cleverdon & Putzel in 1893 and 1895 for Phillip Braender and Louis Cohen. They feature a Romanesque Revival style and cast-iron bases. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

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.