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Map It! 7th Street Place
…1862 Perris map. Next we have the above 1867 Driggs map, which is a bit less specific though offers us an outline of five tenements lining the north side of…
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Gangsters and Artists on Great Jones Street
…on the resources section of the GVSHP website.) The designation report states that 57 Great Jones Street was built between 1860 and 1868 for owner Benjamin Bailey. The architect is…
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Annual House Tour a window into Village History
…remain rural well into the 1860s. The Warren farmhouse survived on this site, albeit in altered form, and was last owned by Abraham Van Nest, a prominent merchant and benefactor…
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Map It! Finding the Lost Stuyvesant Alley
…north side of 11th Street, just across from St. Mark’s Church? The 1867 Dripps map isn’t as detail-specific, but you still get a sense of what the area looked like…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Congregation Shearith Israel
…west of Fifth Avenue, in today’s Flatiron District. That synagogue was completed in 1860. Finally, they moved to the synagogue’s current landmarked location at 2 West 70th Street on the…
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Big New Step for the Village Preservation/Urban Archive Partnership
…is 312 Bowery aka 2 Bleecker, built in 1868. On the north side of Bleecker is 1 Bleecker, designed by prominent architects David and John Jardine and built in 1869….
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Dr. Simon Baruch and the Bathhouse Movement
…teenager. He received his medical degree in 1862 from the Medical College of Virginia and served as a surgeon for the Confederate Army in the Civil War. The Union Army…
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How One Building Turned Greenwich Village Into an Artists’ Mecca
…Street (changed to 51 West Tenth Street in 1866) opened in January of 1858 with nearly every room rented; soon there was a waiting list. The demand did not abate,…
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East Village History: Some Protected, Some Not
…been substantially destroyed for new development. You can read the request for landmark designation that GVSHP wrote here. 143 East 13th Street This handsome building was constructed in 1863 at…
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An East Village Landmark Gets a Facelift
…Aschenbroedel Verein was a German-American professional orchestral musician’s social and benevolent association founded in 1860. By 1866 the society had grown large enough that it purchased this site and eventually…
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Building (801) Broadway: McCreery’s Cast-Iron Gem
…this past post. Built in 1868 to the designs of architect John Kellum, the cast-iron structure was featured in an 1869 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Although McCreery’s originally paid $300,000…
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Top Five Greenwich Village Moments in Fourteenth Amendment History
The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 28, 1868, played an important role in setting legal precedents for equality after the Civil War. The most radically worded of the Reconstruction Amendments, it…
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W.E.B. Du Bois Makes – and Teaches – History at the New School, September 27, 1948
…Born on February 23, 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, W.E.B. Du Bois was a civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Churches
…Street Although not built as a church, this magnificent marble Italianate/French Second Empire structure has served the First Ukrainian Assembly of God since 1937. It was built in 1867 originally…
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President’s Day Roundup!
…those who tried to stop his assassination, bear some interesting connections to our neighborhood. Read about that here. In 1865, President Lincoln’s funeral procession went up Broadway through the Village…
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When Delmonico’s Was On 14th Street
…1 East 14th Street at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue, c. 1865. Courtesy of MCNY. Lorenzo Delmonico chose the site at 1 East 14th Street for the family’s newest…
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Walt Whitman’s Bohemian Village, Featuring Pfaff’s
…Whitman at Pfaff’s In a July 11, 1866 interview in The Brooklyn Eagle, Whitman detailed his hobnobbing with the Village bohemians and Henry Clapp: I used to go to Pfaff’s…
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A Stroll Down West 14th Street: Religious Architecture
…St. Bernard’s parish was first organized in 1868 by Reverend Gabriel A. Healy for the growing Irish population around the Greenwich Village and Chelsea areas. The church on West 14th…
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A Cast Iron Gem That’s Worn Many Different Hats
…building’s history in this past post. Built in 1868 to the designs of architect John Kellum, the cast-iron structure was featured in an 1869 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Although McCreery’s originally paid $300,000…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Cooper Hewitt Museum, Former Andrew Carnegie Mansion
…means to improve their lives. Cooper Union Foundation Building. Painting by Thomas Coke Rackle, 1861 In 1897 Cooper’s granddaughters Sarah (1859–1930) and Eleanor (1864–1924) Hewitt established a museum for…
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A Tour of the Bowery, From GVSHP’s Historic Image Archive and Urban Archive
…few steps away, 316 Bowery (with mansard roof on the left) is known as the Irwin Building. It was constructed in 1868 as a store and dwelling for the banker…
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Small But Mighty Great Jones Street
…steers weighing 6,195 pounds were on display in 1863 to the delight of “lovers of splendid prize cattle” (aren’t we all?). In 1861, the 69th Regiment of New York formed…
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On this day in history…
…early 1800s than it is now. But, like other neighborhoods, it grew, and saw more and more buildings constructed as more and more people moved in. So somewhere around 1869,…
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What Style Is It? Mid-to-Late19th Century
…the United States during the 1860’s and 1870’s. It was inspired by mid-19th century Paris and the classicism of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Its most characteristic feature is the…
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Happy Dyngus Day!
…on 9th Street. Build in 1867, the building was originally the Metropolitan Savings Bank but was converted to a church in 1938. The church then gained landmark designation in 1966. …
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Only Seven Landmarks in One of New York’s Most Historically Rich Areas?
…architect, William Harvey Birkmire (1860-1924) began his career in the steel industry in Philadelphia and was an authority on modern steel construction. By 1895 Birkmire established his architectural firm in…
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Contest: Recreate A Historic Photo!
…District. It was taken on the Bowery in 1980. On the left is 312 Bowery aka 2 Bleecker, built in 1868. On the north side of Bleecker is 1 Bleecker,…
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Landmarks50: The First Ukrainian Assembly of God
…7th Street, was completed in 1867 by architect Carl Pfeiffer, and designated on November 19, 1969. The French Second Empire building stands at a corner plot, so its two impressive…
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The Birth of Mass Transit in NYC
…in 1897 on a ceremonial run was built between 1853 and 1862. This model had a design feature that let the carriage swivel on just one pin to reverse its…
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Prohibition Hits The Village
…immigrant John McSorley. Way back then, it was considered an Irish working man’s saloon, selling beer for pennies. Between 1864 and 1865, the building was improved to become a five-story…
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What is the Oldest Bar in New York City?
…doors in 1854, but researcher Richard McDermott has stated that the site was actually a vacant lot from 1860 to 1861. So is McSorley’s really the oldest bar in New…
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Napoleon LeBrun — Firehouse Architect and So Much More
…a number of notable buildings there and other Pennsylvania towns. In 1864 he moved his family and his practice to New York City. He would later partner with his sons,…
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A Hidden East Village Gallery
…Bullet Space); R: 292 East 3rd Street today If you’re intrigued, let’s start at the beginning. This five-story building was built in 1867 as a pre-law tenement. Throughout most of…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare: The Upcoming Demolition of 813 and 815 Broadway
…1863 issue of Vanity Fair, the Loyal National League reading room was open to the public every day except Sunday to spread the abolition message. At the same time, the…
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Historic Storefronts of the Village and East Village
…cast iron stoop. Through our research, we have found that the store fronts date from 1893 when they were altered from their original 1867 appearance. East 13th Street between 3rd…
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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village
…Cooper in 1859, Cooper Union’s Great Hall also the site of candidate Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 speech which is credited with launching him to the presidency, and Frederick Douglass’ famous 1863…
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Why Isn’t this Landmarked?: 86 University Place, “Mittelstaedt House”
…History, and many other charitable organizations. 1867-1880: Kleindeutschland and Human Hair Following the German revolutions of 1848-49, waves of German immigrants came to New York and transformed this neighborhood, and…
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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
…of 1867. Fenian New York was home to the likes of John Devoy, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, 1916 martyr Thomas Clarke (the only American citizen executed by the British in 1916),…
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Willem de Kooning at Home
…of de Kooning working at his 831 Broadway studio. Today, we thought we would highlight a few, but to view the complete collection, click HERE. 827-831 Broadway, built in 1866…
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Mutual Aid-Then and Now
…role in helping Italians purchase life insurance and other necessities. The Spanish Benevolent Society La Nacional, founded in 1868, still exists today at 239 West Fourteenth Street. From their history:…
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268-272 East 2nd Street: Over 150 Years of Service to the Public
…one might never guess the outstanding century-and-a-half history of the property serving those in need in some pretty extraordinary ways from 1867 until today, with a stint as a coal…
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Renowned Actor Ira Frederick Aldridge Gets His Start at the African Grove Theatre
…in 1864, after which Aldridge married Amanda von Brandt of Sweden. Together, the couple had three children. On August 7, 1867, at the age of sixty, Aldridge passed away and…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The ‘Marble Palace’ A.T. Stewart Store at 280 Broadway
…exclusively used as a warehouse for wholesale trade. Opening on November 1862, the next A.T. Stewart store had arrived, this time in the neighborhood South of Union Square. A.T. Stewart…
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Historic Broadway Gems Saved from Demolition
On October 17, 2017 the Landmarks Preservation Commissions (LPC) held a hearing to consider landmarking 827-831 Broadway, the threatened 1866 lofts once home to Willem de Kooning. Just two weeks…
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Elizabeth Blackwell In Our Neighborhood: The historic sites where America’s first female doctor made her mark
…part of a larger celebration commemorating Blackwell’s work and the legacy of the New York Infirmary. Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, 128 Second Avenue 1868 Announcement for…
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Uncovering the stories behind downtown’s overlooked synagogues
…Village tradition of synagogues located in shape- and faith-shifting structures continues with this grand edifice located east of 1st Avenue. Built in 1866 in the Rundbogenstil (or “round arch”) style,…
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2020 Village Preservation Year in Review: Landmarks Applications
…the landmark designation of this pair of 1866 cast iron-masonry buildings as well as their sister building at 47 East 12th Street. In 2017 we were able to secure landmark…
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Bethune Street: Tribute to a Remarkable Woman
…in length, deviates from that patriarchal trend. It was named after a woman who was exceptional in her philanthropic and educational work, Joanna Graham Bethune (1770-1860). Bethune and her mother…
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The Technological Breakthrough in Our Midst That Allowed Buildings To Grow Tall
…1859 Otis’ design became a must-have. On January 15, 1861, he patented an independently controlled steam engine for elevator use. This invention laid the foundation for what eventually became the Otis…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 814 Broadway
…Dr. Blackwell decided to mobilize the women of the country to help the Union. From just May 1, 1861 to November 1, 1863, the WCAR donated nearly a half million…
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Churches of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…West 4th Street Built in 1860 in the early Romanesque Revival style, this church was designed and constructed by Charles Hadden. It was built of marble and the doors and…
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GVSHP’s First Plaque, On 1st Street
…the words of anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) used to describe her friend Justus H. Schwab and his saloon at 50 East First Street in her autobiography, Living My Life. At…
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Draper’s Observatories: Moongazing Up and Down the Hudson
…New York. In 1867 he married a woman named Anna Palmer — the daughter of a wealthy lawyer who lived in Dobbs Ferry, a nearby village along the Hudson. At…
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Village People: Frederic Church
…American Side’ (1867) Church also travelled to South America twice in 1853 and 1857, producing landscapes in Ecuador. Upon returning, he exhibited ‘Heart of the Andes,’ a 10-foot panoramic landscape,…
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Tracking History: Gansevoort Plaza Then & Now
…after the Civil War and witness an early effort to modernize the mass transit infrastructure for our fast-growing metropolis. 9th Avenue looking southwest from Little West 12th Street ca. 1867…
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This Columbus Day, Save the South Village
…Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments. The Circle in the Square Theater. The Sullivan Street Playhouse. The Tunnel Garage. 178 Bleecker Street’s 1861 rowhouse. The original Fat Black Pussycat Theater sign. These…
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Little Africa: Tracing African Americans in the South Village
…from the organizations, institutions, and stores that still exist today. But it is much harder to trace the African-American community that called the Village home from the 1860s through the…
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135 East 2nd Street, Then & Now
…(Though the date of construction is listed in numerous sources as 1867, that is actually the date of the schoolhouse, since demolished. The new building permit from our East Village…
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Help Us Celebrate Justus Schwab!
…of anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940) used to describe her friend Justus H. Schwab and his saloon at 50 East First Street in her autobiography, Living My Life. To commemorate the…
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A Concert In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
…this great event! This year also marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was signed on January 1, 1863 when the United States was engulfed in civil war….
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…The first Tompkins Market opened here in 1830, but the most famous was the 1860 cast iron building designed by James Bogardus. This building contained the public market on the…
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A Stroll Down West 14th Street: The Residences
…on the north side of West 14th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in a stretch of row houses built between 1840 and 1860, sometimes known as the Andrew Norwood…
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Finding Out More About New York City Buildings Research
…records dating back to the 1860’s. If you are researching a building built prior to the 1860’s you will need to review the less detailed Tax Assessment records. In the…
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What the Lower East Side Means to Me
…maps available at the New York Public Library (with lots more available in their map room at 42nd and Fifth), I’m pretty sure it was built in 1868. In maps…
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Happy Birthday East 10th Street Historic District
…have occurred on this block since 1860. Only four of the buildings were built since 1860, with two being built in the late 1890’s and the latest dating to 1906….
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Mourning President Lincoln Along Broadway
…on April 14, 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington. The event was the first assassination of an American president…
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GVSHP’s First Historic Plaque, On First Street
…Goldman (1869-1940) used to describe her friend Justus H. Schwab and his saloon at 50 East First Street in her autobiography, Living My Life. At one point she listed her…
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23 Third Avenue: An Interesting History and Uncertain Future
…the neighbors. As a result, according to an 1862 map when No. 23 was extended at the rear, both it and the extension conformed to the required eight-foot setback along…
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GVSHP Oral History: Paula DeLuccia Poons
…to the neighborhood over the past 40 years, as well as the recent battle to preserve the 1866 buildings she lives in, slated for demolition until GVSHP was able to…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — Irish History Tour
…designed by John Kellum in 1868 in the French Second Empire Style, employing the relatively new technology of a prefabricated cast-iron facade adorned with Corinthian columns. The building was designed…
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New Evidence of 19th Century African American Life in Our Neighborhoods
…West 10th Street in Greenwich Village, to which it arrived in 1864, just a short while after this directory was published. According to From Abyssinian to Zion, A Guide to…
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#SouthofUnionSquare: Pre-Civil War Buildings
…1863 that survived the rapid development of this area. Here’s a few of them: 98 Third Avenue: 98 Third Avenue This rowhouse, on Third Avenue between East 13th and 12th…
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Exploring NYC’s Churches and Synagogues #BeyondTheVillageAndBack
…instrumental music into religious services, another innovative reform for the period. In 1866, Temple Emanu-El moved out and headed uptown — first to Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street in 1868,…
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A Glimpse into the Gilded Age East Village of the Tiffanys
…was then numbered as No. 175), where they remained until 1860, when the family moved further uptown. Charles Tiffany inside of Union Square location Tiffany & Co. Source: Time While…
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The Supposed Streets of Little Africa
…in New York City. Institutions were formed — the Abyssinian Baptist Church moved to 166 Waverly Place in 1864 and stayed there for four decades; the African Grove Theater opened…
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The Big Bank Heist at Broadway and Bleecker
…arriving in New York in 1869. His skills as a trained architect and his inside knowledge of the comings and goings of the city’s wealthiest combined for one very successful…
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Making Photographic History #SouthOfUnionSquare
…documentation and has since become known as “the father of photojournalism.” On February 27, 1860, relatively unknown presidential hopeful Abraham Lincoln gave his celebrated Cooper Union address at the Cooper…
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You Are Here: Lawrence Henderson Guides Village Preservation through Historic NYC Black Heritage Sites
…A Geographical History of Enslaved and Free Africans in Manhattan: 1613 – 1865. He will be updating a new edition of this book, which we hope to celebrate when it…
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The Lenape Myths that Explain Their Land: Minetta Creek
…and the spirit of Manetta behind it, bear particular resonance for our neighborhood. 1865 Viele map, Minetta Creek, Courtesy of NYPL The Lenape seasonally occupied the southwest region of the…
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Filomena: the thirteen-year-old martyred virgin once celebrated in the South Village
…1860s. Within a few decades, they would become the dominant group in the South Village. The reasons for this development originate in 19th century Italy. The second half of the…
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A Bevy of New Historic Images from Landmarks Applications
…in the NoHo Historic District. This building is part of a group of three buildings along Broadway and one at Mercer built between 1866 and 1883. The structures were built…
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One Small Step for Man…One Giant Leap for 121 Charles Street!
…predated DOB’s formation in 1866). To further complicate matters, wooden houses had been outlawed in Manhattan; so while the house was grandfathered on the York Avenue site, it would not…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. Building
…1848, a young William Schlemmer would sell tools in front of his uncle’s store, and by 1867 he and his new business partner, Alfred Hammacher, bought the family business, renaming…
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C.B.J. Snyder and the East Village
…in 1906 and designed by architect and then-New York City Superintendent of School Buildings C.B.J. Snyder (November 4, 1860 – November 14, 1945). During his tenure in that position from 1891…
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A Marriage Leads to Construction of Manhattan’s Oldest Residence
…was during this period, in 1832, that the parlor floor of the house was remodeled in the later Federal style. In 1861, the rows of Anglo-Italianate homes that today fill…
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A Duel, A Land Sale, and A Very Unusual History (thanks, Aaron Burr)
…MacDougal, Sullivan, Thompson, Prince, and Houston Streets on the site. This 1868 map shows the Bayard property as surveyed by Goerck in 1788 by Goerck. 19th Century Aaron Burr purchased a…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church
…Spellman (tenure 1856-1885), who is credited with ensuring the church’s survival during these years. Under Spellman’s leadership, on January 18, 1864, the church found a new permanent home at 164-166…
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Walking the Meatpacking District With GVSHP’s Historic Image Archive
…firm of C. Percival, which was established in 1868. Attached to 1 Little West 12th, it was then owned by Ottman & Co. for use as a packaging and processing plant,…
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The Origins of Greenwich Village Street Names, Part V
…first public playground. Fun Fact- the current Bleecker Street includes the former Herring Street (renamed to Bleecker in 1829) and Carroll Place (renamed to Bleecker in 1860) MacDougal Street &…
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The Many Illustrious Arrests of Anarchist Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1869. By the time she was 23 years old, she was a divorced American citizen under arrest. For everything from being associated…
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The Irish Immigrant Community of the Far West Village
…rear of the church, St. Veronica’s parochial school was dedicated in 1932. With the opening of the Ninth Avenue El in 1868, this far western section of Greenwich Village was…
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NYCityMap: The Right Tool, With the Wrong Dates
…Street, according to the Greenwich Village Historic District designation report this row of houses was built in the 1860’s. And yet, according to the NYC map, their construction dates are…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The New York Society Library, 53 East 79th Street
…library’s collection increased to thirty-five thousand volumes by 1856, it became necessary to build a larger building. Building on University Place 1862 map showing the Library And so in 1856,…
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New York in Four Maps – Walking the Village of the Past
…in 1856 and engineer of Prospect Park in Brooklyn in 1860, and was involved in planning for the subway system. Viele knew that natural drainage was of vital importance both…
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The Greenwich Village Building With a Starring Role in Hitchcock’s Rear Window
…9th, just 9th Street, numbered east from 6th Avenue; it was split east-west at 5th Avenue only in the 1860s. Since then, West 9th exists only only for one block,…
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Celebrating Immigration in Greenwich Village
…retired in 1865, and died soon thereafter, and left the house to his children. Emma Lazarus, born on July 22, 1849, was the fourth of seven children. Lazarus, who’s been called…
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Many Layers of History at 6th Avenue and 11th Street
…(The New Yorker “Where Time Has Stopped,” 25 February 1928). PS 41 PS 41. Photo courtesy of Ephemeral New York. Founded in 1867, Grammar School No. 41 first opened…
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Take a Virtual Walk! Visit the Homes of Greenwich Village’s Social Change Champions
…Free Soil Party movement, becoming its candidate for the Attorney-General of New York, and during the Civil War he advised Abraham Lincoln and the president’s cabinet. In 1869, Jay was…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…Elizabeth’s death in 1854. In 1861, the rows of Anglo-Italianate homes that make up much of the St. Mark’s Historic District were finally developed. 1803 is indeed very early, but not early…
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Our 2018 Resolutions
…(12th/13th Streets) — in 2017 GVSHP saved these 1866 lofts that were once home to Willem de Kooning from the wrecking ball. But now a developer wants permission to build…
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