Greenwich House has been serving the community for 111 years. Photo via Greenwich House. Founded 111 years ago by reformer Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Greenwich House began as a place to…
Read More…House’s previous location). After first living in Hartley House, a settlement house in Hell’s Kitchen within her fellowship study area, Perkins moved to Greenwich House. Greenwich House, founded by social…
Read More…our community. Left to Right: Greenwich House, 1930s NYPL / Young Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Greenwich House Collection At the time of Greenwich House’s founding, Greenwich Village was one of many…
Read More…however, to dig a little deeper into this community cornerstone, focusing attention on Greenwich House Pottery. The pottery has been part of the larger Greenwich House’s services since 1909, seven…
Read More…Bigelow Apothecaries Corner Bistro Deutsches Haus The Edward Hopper Studio First Presbyterian Church Food Tours of NY Glucksman Ireland House NYU Greenwich House Greenwich Locksmiths Greenwich Village Chamber Singers HB…
Read MorePRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Andrew Berman, Executive Director June 8, 2004 Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (212) 475-9585 x38 Manhattan – The Greenwich Village Society for Historic…
Read More…Leo Strauss, and Reiner Schürmann. 4. Greenwich House, 27 Barrow Street Via Wiki Commons One of New York’s oldest and largest “Settlement Houses,” Greenwich House was established in 1902 to aid…
Read More…and philosophers Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Reiner Schürmann. 4. Greenwich House, 27 Barrow Street Via Wiki Commons One of New York’s oldest and largest “Settlement Houses,” Greenwich House was established…
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Read MoreWho doesn’t like an opportunity to celebrate? The Greenwich Village Historic District, which was designated (landmarked) on April 29, 1969, holds some of the loveliest bits of Greenwich Village within…
Read More…preservation. Looking up at an altered 1847 Greek Revival house from a previous tour. The Greenwich Village Historic District The original Greenwich Village Historic District covers only a portion of…
Read More…officials sympathetic to the preservation battle, and community leaders in Greenwich Village, a new home was found for the house at a lot on the corner of Charles and Greenwich…
Read More…at the Greenwich House Music School on Barrow Street. Greenwich House was started in 1902 by Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch as a settlement house serving surrounding immigrant communities. Greenwich House Music…
Read More…It will have its premiere on September 5th, 2019. Greenwich House Theater 27 Barrow Street Opened in 1917 as the Greenwich House Theater, Greenwich House’s Children Theater program occupied the…
Read More…Carl Schurz, and other social reformers joined to found Greenwich House, located at 27 Barrow Street. Simkhovitch and Greenwich House’s work led to the publication of the country’s first tenants…
Read More…houses). Federal-style houses are generally the oldest structures in Greenwich Village, and with a few exceptions, in all of Manhattan. I imagine a writer or painter sitting next to those…
Read More…at 17 Grove Street (at Bedford Street) is often assumed to be one of the oldest houses, if not the oldest house, in Greenwich Village. It’s a good guess since wooden…
Read More…to Greenwich House (the Settlement House philosophy focused on bringing people of privilege and those in need together). Greenwich House accomplished many firsts for Settlement Houses, including establishing a nursery…
Read More(l.) The current 829 Greenwich Street; (r.) the rejected proposed alteration We are happy to report that a proposed radical redesign of a modernist townhouse at 829 Greenwich Street that…
Read More…houses off of West 10th Street between Sixth and Greenwich Avenues, across from the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now the Jefferson Market Library). It was during his years on Patchin Place…
Read More…Davis & Dorothy Day, Women’s House of Detention A 1938 photo showing the Women’s House of Detention south of the Jefferson Market Courthouse, via NYPL These five notorious women all…
Read MoreIn the heart of Greenwich Village, a historic theater emerged as a cradle of creativity and a crucible for groundbreaking theatrical experiments—the Provincetown Playhouse. Established in 1915 in Provincetown, Massachusetts…
Read More…room at “Greenwich House.” Greenwich House, founded by social reformer Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, opened at 26 Jones Street in 1902. Over the next quarter century, it had expanded to a…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…of fate. Merchant’s House Museum. Photo courtesy of nycgovparks.org In 1832, Joseph Brewster (a hatter by trade, who also speculated in real estate) built a brick and marble row house…
Read More…this program will discuss Greenwich Village as a space of collective memory and an important site of preservation in New York City. Greenwich Village built a reputation for eccentricity, experimentation,…
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Read More…small workingmen’s houses off of West 10th Street between Sixth and Greenwich Avenues, across from the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now the Jefferson Market Library). It was during his years on…
Read MoreA 1965 paperback edition of Greenwich Village: 1920-1930 available in the GVSHP library. For those familiar with the history of Greenwich Village, the name of author Jane Jacobs is quite…
Read More…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….
Read More…Dispensary at Waverly Place and Christopher Street, constructed in 1831; Greenwich House, the settlement house on Barrow Street constructed in 1916; and “The Narrowest House in New York” at 75…
Read More…The inmates were relocated to the newly constructed Rikers Island facility. The closure of the Women’s House of Detention had a profound impact on Greenwich Village. The immediate effect was…
Read More…house sandwiched between masonry houses and apartment buildings, channeling a bygone era. How and when did these houses arrive here? Why are there so few? And, perhaps most curiously, how…
Read More…his 1807 print of Trinity Church burning to the ground on September 21, 1776, was widely distributed. The main building of the settlement house, Greenwich House, founded in 1902, has…
Read More…in Hartley House, a settlement house in Hell’s Kitchen within her fellowship study area, Perkins moved to Greenwich House, calling it “the very heart of both the theoretical and practical…
Read More…Lower East Side and Upper West Side in close proximity, Greenwich Village, and more specifically the Greenwich Village Historic District, is not one of the first places in New York…
Read More…answer. Is it one of the two charming wooden houses? The “brick” house with connections to Paul Revere? The Merchant’s House Museum, Manhattan’s first individual landmark? The handsome Stuyvesant Street house…
Read More…Merchant’s House Museum and the Skidmore House remain the only surviving reminders of a once-elegant row of mid-19th-century residences that defined the block. Read more about the Skidmore House here….
Read More…Park and Greenwich Village Historic District Open House Weekend, April 13 & 14, 2019 Dozens of events and open house participants celebrated the Greenwich Village Historic District over the course…
Read More…overcrowding, unsanitary housing, and exploitative landlord practices. Social worker Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch founded Greenwich House in 1902 at 26 Jones Street to tackle these systemic hardships. Inspired by settlement-house models,…
Read More…overcrowding, unsanitary housing, and exploitative landlord practices. Social worker Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch founded Greenwich House in 1902 at 26 Jones Street to tackle these systemic hardships. Inspired by settlement-house models,…
Read More…a single story, started out life as the carriage house for the owners of a townhouse on Washington Place. In 1917, as horse-drawn carriages gave way to motorcars and Greenwich…
Read More…the former townhouse of a rock-and-roll legend, or prominent literary figure? This weekend, you can! A backyard treehouse is featured on this year’s house tour It’s not too late to…
Read MoreCo-Sponsored by Greenwich House Settlement houses have long been more than providers of social services – they were, and still are, incubators of progressive ideas, civic action, and policy change….
Read More…houses in The Village, this once elegant Federal townhouse, constructed of Flemish bond, was built in 1826. That it was formerly a two and one-half story house with pitched roof…
Read More…query. Ken, Barbie’s perpetual plus-one, certainly did have a dreamhouse in Greenwich Village, and his family lived there for nearly a decade. In March 1959, an 11 1/2-inch plastic doll…
Read More…celebrations. The streets, parks, and squares of the Greenwich Village Historic District are named for a unique collection of historical figures. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich…
Read More…for your top ten picks, click here. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch — Social reformer and activist, city planner, advocate for the poor, and founder of Greenwich House. Patti Smith — Singer,…
Read More…Wadleigh. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch — Social reformer and activist, city planner, advocate for the poor, and founder of Greenwich House. Patti…
Read More…neighborhood, including at Greenwich House, P.S. 41, P.S. 3, I.S. 70, and with friends and family in Washington Square Park. Her mother was active in Jane Jacobs’ rallies and advocacy…
Read More…for your top 10 picks, click here. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch — Social reformer and activist, city planner, advocate for the poor, and founder of Greenwich House. Patti Smith — Singer,…
Read More…out on that map — the East Village’s Christadora House. GVSHP’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Map The late 1800’s saw a large movement toward establishing Settlement Houses in…
Read More…bears a surprising connection to a still extant-house in Greenwich Village — one for which we are seeking landmark status, along with its surroundings. Contemporary cartoon illustrating the run on…
Read More…lost when the hotel is built next door. Photo via Merchants House According to the Merchants House: “The House will be damaged during construction, no question. According to studies performed by…
Read More…almost perfectly intact 1834 Federal-style house and its rear carriage house, which were among the first sites to be designated a NYC landmark by the then-new LPC in 1966 and…
Read MoreFire Patrol #2 in 2009. Photo credit: Village Preservation Historic Image Archive The former firehouse located at 84 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village is often noted for being the renovated and restored…
Read More…guidebook to the architectural styles of Greenwich Village rowhouses, titled Nineteenth Century Dwelling Houses of Greenwich Village. We were contacted several weeks ago by a longtime Association member after she…
Read More…a transitional Federal style house with Greek Revival elements. The Merchant’s House Museum, known formerly as the Seabury Tredwell House or the Old Merchant’s House, is the only 19th-century family…
Read More…book, The Houses of Greenwich Village. Dating from the early nineteenth century to the turn of the twenty-first century, the houses featured in this book represent a range of historic…
Read More…petty bourgeois who surrounded him. Paine first lived in Greenwich Village in a house at 309 Bleecker Street, which was demolished in 1930. He later moved into a house at…
Read More…the street. The house originally had a horse walk, or a tunnel through the home to the carriage house in the rear. That rear house of course no longer houses…
Read MoreWooden Houses of Greenwich Village A lecture by Elizabeth Finkelstein and Michael Devonshire Greenwich Village is celebrated for its beautiful rows of brick and brownstone townhouses. But those who meander…
Read More…Museum. But it used to have a home in the White House. Here’s the story of how Christopher Street and Greenwich Village made it into the nation’s First Home. In 1933,…
Read MoreWooden Houses of Greenwich Village: A lecture by Elizabeth Finkelstein and Michael Devonshire Greenwich Village is celebrated for its beautiful rows of brick and brownstone townhouses. But those who meander…
Read More…Coffee House Club’s evolution. The Salmagundi Club, current meeting place of the Coffee House Club, located at 47 Fifth Avenue. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the Coffee House…
Read More…Coffee House Club’s evolution. The Salmagundi Club, current meeting place of the Coffee House Club, located at 47 Fifth Avenue. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the Coffee House…
Read MoreAmong the many delights included in this weekend’s Open House New York will be three iconic Greenwich Village buildings–a Gothic Revival church with many architectural firsts, a library that was originally a…
Read More…Mansion in Upper Manhattan, and the architecture of Greenwich Village row houses. Table of Contents 94-96 Greenwich Street Research Haynes Recommends Ruth Wittenberg Be Appointed to LPC News Clippings Research…
Read MoreGreenwich Village Historic District 50: The Making of the Greenwich Village Historic District In 1969, Greenwich Village preservationists, activists, and neighbors celebrated the victory of the designation of the Greenwich…
Read MoreThis is the latest installment of the Off the Grid’s series in which we highlight the people, places and events featured in our new book Greenwich Village Stories, available for…
Read MoreJoin us this Monday at 6 pm for the ceremonial unveiling of a plaque honoring pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart at Greenwich House, where she once lived and served as a…
Read More…East 11th Street. The entire building housed the rectory of the adjacent St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery until the lower floors were restored after a fire to house NPC…
Read MoreThe Women’s House of Detention, an eleven-story prison in the center of Greenwich Village, closed on June 13th, 1971. The prison was located on this site, between Greenwich Avenue, Sixth…
Read More…House changed how office buildings were designed. Manhattan House was a full block apartment complex between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, 65th and 66th Streets on the Upper East Side, and is…
Read More…675 Hudson Street. Funny Face – a 1950s Greenwich Village Bookstore (Prime) Fred Astaire, in the Greenwich Village bookstore, caught in the timeless thrall of Audrey Hepburn Funny Face…
Read More…send it to testimony@lpc.nyc.gov by 12:00 noon on the Monday before the hearing. Click HERE for suggested guidelines for testimony from Village Preservation. Greenwich Village Historic District At the Corner…
Read More…(the house is sometimes referred to as the “Goodnight Moon House”). In 1960, Sven and Ingrid Bernhard rented the farmhouse and in 1966 the Bernhards gain ownership of farmhouse. They…
Read MoreCo-Sponsored by Merchant’s House Museum The 1855 New York State Census gives us the names of the Irish women who worked in the Tredwell home: Mary James, Mary Smith, and…
Read More…on what was once the court between 77 and 75 Bedford Streets. No. 77 Bedford Street is the Isaacs-Hendricks House, built in 1799 and the oldest house in Greenwich Village…
Read More…was once the court between 77 and 75 Bedford Streets. No. 77 Bedford Street is the Isaacs-Hendricks House, built in 1799 and the oldest house in Greenwich Village (but not…
Read More…oldest house in Greenwich Village (but not as old as the 1795 house at 44 Stuyvesant Street in the East Village, as we learned in an earlier post). No. 77…
Read More…Merchant’s House, you know, going.” Joining the Historic House Trust in 1998 provided new avenues of support for the Merchant’s House. Joining the trust meant that the house was deeded…
Read More22 East 12th Street (Courtesy: Flickr) Cinema Village, located at 22 East 12th Street, is the oldest continuously operated cinema in Greenwich Village and one of the oldest continuously operated…
Read MoreGetting It Right: From Historic Properties to Urban Landscapes Renovating Townhouse Interiors: The Guts of the House $20 Village Preservation members; $35 all others Visit www.gvshp.org/gettingitright for series information and…
Read More…Greenwich Street 486 Greenwich Street NYC LPC Designation Report 488 Greenwich Street 488 Greenwich Street NYC LPC Designation Report Dennison and Lydia Wood House, 310 Spring Street Dennison…
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Tribeca resident Richard Corman documented the horrific destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, from his roof at 335 Greenwich Street, and the surrounding area in the…
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Read More…“Open House” starting on Saturday, April 13 in Washington Square. Check here for updates and more details. This is part of a series of posts about the Greenwich Village Historic District marking its golden…
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Tribeca resident Richard Corman documented the horrific destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, from his roof at 335 Greenwich Street, and the surrounding area in the…
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…to enter the Artists’ Homes and Haunts tour 4. Wood Frame Houses Greenwich Village is full of mid-to-late 19th century row houses predominantly in the Federal and Greek Revival styles,…
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The four-story building in the center, five buildings from the right, is the old PS 41, demolished in the 1950s to make way for the new PS 41 and its…
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Read MoreThe Greenwich Village Historic District, which was designated (landmarked) on April 29, 1969, holds some of the loveliest bits of Greenwich Village within its bounds — from Washington Square to…
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