This six-story apartment building was designed in 1940 by H.I. Feldman in the Art Deco/Arte Moderne style. A now-demolished building on this lot was home to the New York Society Library, the first library in New York. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This eleven-story neo-Renaissance style loft building was constructed in 1902 by architect Frank Goodwillie and builder Isaac A. Hopper & Son for the Thirteenth Street Co.. Local 1L of the Amalgamated Lithographers of America (ALA) is located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

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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.

Constructed in 1896 in the Romanesque Revival style, this nine-story brick through-block building was designed by architect Albert Wagner, and features a cast-iron storefront. One of the first tenants was Richard E. Thibaut’s Art Wallpapers, known as the “world’s largest manufacturer of wallpaper.” It housed the National Negro Congress and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), and various other leftist organizations. The Communist Workers’ bookshop and the Jewish Daily Freiheit newspaper were located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Constructed in 1896 in the Romanesque Revival style, this nine-story brick through-block building was designed by architect Albert Wagner, and features a cast-iron storefront. One of the first tenants was Richard E. Thibaut’s Art Wallpapers, known as the “world’s largest manufacturer of wallpaper.” It housed the National Negro Congress and the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), and various other leftist organizations. The Communist Workers’ bookshop and the Jewish Daily Freiheit newspaper were located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

A look at some of the architecturally, historically, and culturally significant buildings once located in this area. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of extant historic buildings south of Union Square.