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.

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.

Louis Korn designed this eight-story loft building in 1897, which combines neo-Renaissance and neo-Romanesque styles. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This seven-story Renaissance Revival style loft building was constructed in 1895 and designed by Louis Korn. It is noteworthy for its combination of lacy decorative ironwork and robust stone architecture, and was home to two highly significant entities in the history of photography. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eight-story neo-Classical/Romanesque Revival style loft building was constructed in 1898 by Farnsworth & Miller for Frank Brettell.