This three-story brick building was erected in 1906 by architect L. Gilles for Luder Reinken. It was the home of a noted sculptor and housed one of the Tenth Street Galleries, which participated in the emergence of the underground film scene. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

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.

This four-story brick rowhouse was built in 1839 for A. Thompson. A German American illustrator and a family of famed vaudeville performers lived here.

This four-story rowhouse was built in 1838-39 for James E. Hills. It is among the oldest surviving structures in the area built as a house, and was the site of one of the largest and most prominent tailoring establishments on Third Avenue in the 19th century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

In spite of massive waves of commercial construction, tenement building, and later hotel and apartment building construction which swept through this neighborhood, the area retains dozens of rowhouses from its early stages of development, dating from the early 1830s to the early 1850s. They range from modest to grand, most in the Greek Revival or Italianate style. Reflecting the vast forces of change which swept through the area, none remained single family houses, taking on new lives housing commerce, unions, theaters, art galleries, and multiple tenants. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.