Among the many industries which this area played a significant role in shaping and transforming was photography. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

Many of the most prominent publishers in America and the world were located here, producing some of the most significant works of literature of the last two hundred years. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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.

Some of New York's most prominent and impactful philanthropists, and philanthropic organizations, were located here. 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 beautifully intact cast-iron structure which dates to 1880 was later owned by W. Jennings Demorest, and in 1891 was extended through block with the construction of a connecting structure at 5 East 13th Street. It served as the headquarters of the New York City Woman Suffrage League, which led the late 19th century effort to extend the vote in New York State to women, while also serving as a home to a variety of significant photographers, artists, philanthropic organizations, and commercial enterprises. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

An extraordinary confluence of organizations and people connected to African American, LGBTQ, Women's, and other civil rights struggles were located here, including some of the most significant in each of these movements. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This 5-story loft building was designed in 1889 by Albert D’Oench, architect of the nearby Germania Life Insurance Co. Building and several other designated New York City landmarks, for Mary Springler-Van Beueren, one of the last survivors of the Springler-Van Beueren clan, one of the earliest developers of property on 14th Street. The noted publisher Joseph Marshall Stoddart had offices here in the late 19th century, and labor rights and women’s suffrage advocate Robert Ellis Thompson’s “The American: A Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, Art and Finance” was published here. It replaced a building which housed the headquarters of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union, which crusaded for women’s suffrage and other progressive reforms while also advocating for prohibition on alcohol. 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.