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This ten-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1903 for builder Jeremiah C. Lyons and designed by Buchman & Fox. The publishing house Jacobsen Publishing was located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
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This twelve-story structure was constructed as manufacturing lofts in 1908 by renowned architect Schwartz & Gross for the Brevoort Construction Co. Several Trotskyite organizations were located here, and the weekly organ of the Workers Party of the U.S., the New Militant, was published at this site. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
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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.
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57 East 11th Street
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Designed by Buchman & Fox, this ten-story Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1903 for builder Jeremiah C. Lyons. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
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