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 eight-story loft building was designed by Henri Fouchaux for Henri Miller c. 1900 in the Beaux Arts style. Fouchaux was the architect of many landmarked New York City buildings in Tribeca, Ladies Mile, the Upper West Side, Sugar Hill, and the Jumel Terrace Historic District. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.