This building was originally constructed as a three-story Greek Revival row house for owner Masterton & Smith in 1841-42. In 1939 it was reduced to one story, and in 2009 altered to eight stories. This was the final location of the renowned Cedar Tavern, a central gathering spot for the New York School of writers and artists. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

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.

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 began as a four story private house built in 1840 with a fifth floor added in 1880 and the two story commercial addition in front added in 1919. It housed one of New York’s most prominent philanthropists of the 19th century who helped establish some of the city’s great institutions, later serving as the home to a family of German immigrant entrepreneurs. The commercial space housed one of the city’s most popular speakeasies, and later a lesbian bar frequented by well-know authors. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

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.

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.

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 7-story Romanesque Revival style loft was built in 1894 for Leopold R. True by Louis Korn, architect of many landmarked NYC buildings. Graphic designer and artist Stanley Glaubach had a studio here and Charles Cheriff Galleries was located here for nearly a century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Many notable organizations, leaders, and events in the women's rights and women's suffrage movements were located or took place here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.