This four-story plus raised basement Italianate style rowhouse was built c. 1847-48 for William Bailey. The house’s façade has been stuccoed, but it retains its Italianate doorway, cornice, and elaborate stoop and areaway ironwork. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This six-story Neo-Classical style loft building was constructed in 1899 by architect Schickel & Ditmars for Samuel Sachs. The German-born William Schickel was the architect of many other notable buildings, including the German Library and Dispensary. This building became home to the first 12-track recording studio in the country. 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.

An incredible array of sites in the area are connected to the great artists and art movements of the last century and a half. In the mid-20th century, this area was ground zero for the New York School of artists, who shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This four-story plus raised basement Italianate style rowhouse was built in 1851-52 for Stephen Bursh. Famed abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock and African American music collector Lawrence Gellert both lived here, and a Depression-era Artists and Writers Dinner Club was located here. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.