These two eight-story lofts were designed by Cleverdon & Putzel in 1893 and 1895 for Phillip Braender and Louis Cohen. They feature a Romanesque Revival style and cast-iron bases. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

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 eight-story loft building was designed in 1896 by Cleverdon & Putzel for Louis Cohen. It features elaborate ironwork — likely cast-iron — on the first two stories. 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 lot comprises two buildings. No. 52 East 13th Street was built in 1893 and designed by architect Renwick, Aspinwall & Renwick for E.T. Gerry. No. 54 was built in 1852 for Peter Goelet. They have since been combined as one and refaced.

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 two-story structure was present on this lot as early as 1885. The Reform Jewish congregation The Village Temple Congregation B’nai Israel moved here in 1957. In 2007, the façade of the structure was modernized by architect Lee H. Skolnick. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

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.

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.

This area was a mecca for leftist and labor organizing, with many of the most significant figures and organizations of the 19th and 20th centuries located here. 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.

The two eight-story lofts at No. 39-41 and No. 43-45 East 12th Street were designed by Cleverdon & Putzel in 1893 and 1895 for Phillip Braender and Louis Cohen. They feature a Romanesque Revival style and cast-iron bases. 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.

This area was home to several sites connected to significant developments in African American history, including civil rights leaders and organizations, musicians, and writers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

Since at least the 1890s and through the 20th century, this area was the center of the bookselling industry in New York, centered along Fourth Avenue as well as Broadway and University Place, and probably had the highest concentration of booksellers in the world. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

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 area contains a number of sites connected to significant people or developments in New York's Jewish history. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.