This three-story Beaux-Arts building was designed in 1903 by architects Jardine, Kent & Jardine as an auction mart for horses and then automobiles. The part of the building facing East 12th Street dates to 1890. 126-128 East 13th Street housed a vocational school for women during World War II and was the studio for over a quarter century of noted artist Frank Stella. It was saved from planned demolition. 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.

This fifteen-story building is the New School’s first dormitory, completed in 1989 by architect Prentice Chan Ohlhausen.

Two buildings were constructed at this site in 1853 by George Law, and there is evidence they have operated as a theater since at least the 1920s. Since 1973, the ground floor of this building has been home to the Classic Stage Company, one of New York’s oldest continuously operating Off Broadway theaters. A lithographer who produced piano sheet music was also located here. 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.

The three-story Beaux-Arts building at 126-128 East 13th Street was designed in 1903 by architects Jardine, Kent & Jardine as an auction mart for horses and then automobiles. The part of the building facing East 12th Street dates to 1890. No. 126-128 housed a vocational school for women during World War II and was the studio for over a quarter century of noted artist Frank Stella. It was saved from planned demolition. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This site originally held a two-story stable, built as early as 1868. It appears that three more stories were added in 1893. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This five-story loft building, with a later one-story rooftop addition, was constructed in 1888 by David and John Jardine. The architects also designed the landmarked former Van Tassel & Kearney Horse Auction Mart next door. A cast-iron base adorns the building, which is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This area was a center of theater and home to many experimental and innovative theaters, large and small, several of which still survive to this day. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This five-story loft building, with a later one-story rooftop addition, was constructed in 1888 by David and John Jardine. The architects also designed the landmarked former Van Tassel & Kearney Horse Auction Mart next door. A cast-iron base adorns the building, which is designed in the Romanesque Revival style. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.