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16 East 12th Street
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This nine-story buff brick and stone Beaux Arts style loft building was constructed in 1902-04 by Sass & Smallheiser for the Middleboro and Master Builders Realty Company. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
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22 East 12th Street
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This building was constructed in 1898 as a firehouse by architect Horgan & Slattery for the City of New York. Since 1963 it has been the home of Cinema Village, the oldest continuously operating art house cinema in New York City. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.
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Architecture Tour
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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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Film Tour
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The area is home to a number of significant sites to the history of film, including a large number of current and former movie houses, film producers, and organizations which shaped the course of film history in the United States. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.
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