…slender finial at the top three stories. In 1896 Louis L. Lorillard (1849-1910) purchased the building. He was one of four sons of Pierre Lorillard III (1796- 1867), real estate speculator…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…New York City’s 1863 race riots here in Greenwich Village. These riots have often been explained as a consequence of the Civil War draft, an alibi that obscures the racial…
Read More…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…
Read More…of time, include a marbled interior, imported German stained-glass windows, and eight small side chapels. Views of the church interior In 1865, the parish community numbered 15,000, and it was…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…Sullivan Street Playhouse, to say nothing of architecturally significant sites such as the 1862 rowhouse at 178 Bleecker Street and the Tunnel Garage. Now the South Village’s Children’s Aid Society’s…
Read More…New Office Tower Coming to Astor Place (NY1) A $3 Million Whiteout on the Bowery (EV Grieve) Public Urinal at Astor Place, 1868 (Ben Katchor) At B Bar, A Garden…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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,…
Read More…(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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…1868 for the Bronze Works Manufacturing. Pierre Emmanuel Guerin opened his foundry P.E. Guerin in 1857 on Marion Street, then moved to Wooster Street and West 3rd before taking residency…
Read More…when New York and the nation’s economic activity were expanding rapidly. From 1862 to 1920 it served as the New York office of the United States Sub-Treasury, and in 1939…
Read More…Stonewall Inn, Julius’ is often called the oldest continuously operating gay bar in New York City. It was originally established in 1867 and by the 1950’s was attracting gay patrons. …
Read More…land. The house sat inside a garden, which remained untouched until after Elizabeth’s death in 1854. In 1861, the rows of Anglo-Italianate homes that make up much of the St….
Read More…of Stephen Crane, 1869 Crane was the youngest child of Jonathan Crane, a Methodist Episcopal minister and writer/suffragist Mary Helen Peck Crane. He spent less than two years as a…
Read More…with low-quality materials that were quick to burn, and the cramped interior spaces were filled to well over their capacity. In the early evening of February 2, 1860, at 142…
Read More…the Federal Bureau of Investigation, one of the most dangerous women in the country. Emma Goldman Goldman was born in Kovno, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), in 1869….
Read MoreL: an aerial view of Sheridan Square; R: Sheridan Square Viewing Garden On this day, August 1, in the year 1864 during the Civil War, General Philip Sheridan was appointed…
Read More…Prior to the Civil War, Cooper was active in the anti-slavery movement. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln, who was not yet the Republican candidate for president, made an impassioned speech in…
Read More…Fine Art America. Coincidentally, Melville, spent the years from 1866 to 1885 working as a Customs inspector for the Department of Docks in a long-since vanished building on the wharf…
Read More…by 1864 it housed a bar, and it has done so to this day, making it one of the oldest continuously operating bars in New York City. By the 1950s, the…
Read More…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…
Read More…(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…
Read More…buried there until 1851, and in 1864 all remains of the cemetery were moved the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn). The outline of the apartment building which replaced it, along with…
Read More…compensation, Peter Gerard, Elizabeth’s brother, conveyed the triangular shaped lot to them which would be known as Elizabeth Fish’s Garden. This would later be built on in 1861 with a…
Read More…from slavery to freedom in 1865; early African-American churches such as AME Zion Church, the first black church in New York and the founding church of the Zion AME denomination,…
Read More…all aspects of the House and objects on display accurately represent our period – 1835-1865. The evidence provided by the newly-revealed wall will go a long way towards unraveling some…
Read More…Line at Greenwich and Christopher Streets. Photo courtesy of MCNY. The Ninth Avenue El began operation in 1868, with a charter to run from Battery Place to 30th Street. In Greenwich…
Read More…and Pearl Street. 1862 Perris map showing the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. NYPL Digital Collection 1854-55 New York City Directory. NYPL Elizabeth wrote a letter about this experience which was…
Read More…first wave of German immigrants to settle on the lower East Side in the 1840s, another group of over one million Germans arrived in the 1860s that were fleeing war-torn…
Read MoreEast Village Cornice East Village coffee shop The Bean fights back Starbucks’ 186 locations (that’s more locations than there are subways stations!) (NY Times) Village Doorman, a new start-up will…
Read More…building built in 1861 but with the striking undulating profile (added later, of course). So go visit or order from a great independently-owned family-run business with terrific, original food, The Original…
Read More…to find. Then just 12 years old, William Schlemmer would sell tools in front of his uncle’s store. By 1867, he, along with newly acquired partner Alfred Hammacher (a fellow…
Read More…in free states but not in the South, an institution he would later abolish in 1863 during the height of the American Civil War. It was also at Cooper Union…
Read More…which certainly qualifies is Richard Harding Davis, an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama born on April 18th, 1864, andthe house he lived in, 108 Waverly Place (between Washington…
Read More…out our past Off the Grid pieces on the site, including a 2016 post celebrating the 50th anniversary of the church’s NYC landmark designation. An 1865 stereoview, from the collections…
Read More…16, 1854, the garden was finally parcelled up for development, with the current homes completed in 1861. Also Angle-Italianate in style, this terrace fronts both Stuyvesant Street (Nos. 23-35) and…
Read More…recent major loss was that of the mid-block 1861 rowhouse at 178 Bleecker Street, one of a cohesive row constructed when the South Village’s main commercial hub was an elegant…
Read More…museum’s website, “offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865.” From the time of its construction in 1832, the house was home to…
Read More…of John B. Snook, known for designing iron front buildings. In 1864 Hatch started his own firm and became an architect of the United States War Department. His design for…
Read More…building, an absolutely beautiful functioning, robust synagogue and community. The Romanesque Revival/Rundbogenstil style building was originally The First German Baptist Church. Built in 1869-70 by architect Julius Boekell, the church…
Read More…in the country to integrate both students and staff. It had one of the first if not the first African-American newspapers, the Freedman’s Torchlight, and in the 1860s became the…
Read More…Little Missionary’s Day Nursery since 1901 Sara Curry (c. 1863-1940) was known locally as The Little Missionary due to both her diminutive stature and her work with the impoverished families…
Read More…and moved to Concord with his family in 1867. At this time, he spent two semesters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after which he left school and began studying…
Read More…in 1873 for the Aschenbrödel Verein (“Cinderella Society”), a musicians’ club formed in Kleindeutschland in 1860. In 1967, it became Ellen Stewart’s La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Ellen Stewart came…
Read More827-831 Broadway/47 East 12th Street These 1866 cast iron loft buildings located between 12th and 13th Streets were slated for demolition and replacement with a 300 ft tall office tower…
Read More…made his fortune with the firm Johnson & Lazarus, which imported and sold sugar. Lazarus had retired in 1865, and died soon thereafter, and left the house to his children….
Read More…including this one from 1837. New York City started to require permits for new buildings in 1866, so determining the date of construction for buildings constructed prior to that date…
Read More…who had his shipyard on the East River between 5th and 7th Streets from 1840 to 1865. He built more than 130 ships and was renowned as the greatest shipbuilder…
Read More…a host of artists living illegally in the industrial lofts of the neighborhood. Most of these buildings dated to the period from the 1860s to the early 1900s, when about…
Read More…the beginning of 1865, Booth came to 45 Grove Street to meet with and try to convince Chester to participate in his plan to take over the government by kidnapping…
Read More…The LGBT Center The famous LGBT center also has its roots as an institution of education. Built in stages in 1869 and 1899, this magnificent Italianate structure used to be…
Read More…Street elevated rail line in the 1860s, known as the “el,” which distributed goods sold at the bustling Gansevoort and West Washington markets, opened in 1884 and 1887 respectively. The…
Read More…built 75 1/2 Bedford Street between 1854 and 1862, now known as the narrowest building in New York City. One of its first occupants was German-born shoemaker Jacob Bloom and…
Read More…in 1840, this brick residence was originally a more conventional Greek Revival house, a spacious 25-feet wide. In 1868 the fish-scale mansard roof was added, adding a full story, with…
Read More…1869 in Saratoga Springs. Lillie Devereux Blake was the leader of both the state and city organization. At the time the League moved to 14th Street, only Wyoming and Colorado…
Read More…sewing-schools, books, pictures, toys, canned fruit and milk and vegetables, [and] hospital stores.” Charlotte Augusta Astor, 1860. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The League’s work was also aimed at “civilizing”…
Read More…flagpole was erected in 1936 to commemorate the 1861 Fire Zouaves, an elite Civil War unit that wore uniforms styled after those worn by North African tribesmen. On June 27,…
Read More…Village Award winner Julius’s bar, which Village Preservation continues to work to protect. As background, by 1864 the row house on West 10th Street housed a bar, making it one…
Read More…the Moir family, who lived there from 1866 to 1900. We’re fortunate to still have these buildings in our neighborhood – part of the original Greenwich Village Historic District –…
Read More…in Kovno, Russia (now Lithuania) in 1869. Like most Eastern European Jews, Goldman’s family suffered under the political oppression and anti-Semitism of imperial Russia. She fled her homeland as a teenager…
Read More…“most original and thoughtful periodical ever published in this country.” The magazine failed financially and ceased publication in 1844. It was resuscitated for one year in 1860, then again in…
Read More…against their masters. He later moved to Washington D.C., where he became a prominent preacher at the 15th Street Presbyterian Church. It was on February 12, 1865, mere weeks before…
Read More…its bridges, and the firm of Olmsted, Vaux and Company (1865-72) designed numerous landscape projects in New York City and around the country, including Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the park…
Read More…been one of our favorite buildings in the East Village. Constructed in 1863, the building contains one of the most pristine and intact tenement storefronts to be found in New…
Read More…the street number used to be No. 93 at time of construction. The 1862 map shows the house numbers reassigned along this section of East 3rd Street on the north…
Read More…to protect their investment from the white-run Methodist church. AME Zion Church, West 10th Street and Bleecker Street. The congregation worshipped here from 1864-1904. The church thrived, operating out of…
Read More…in 1867 in the Italianate/French Second Empire style, designed by Carl Pfeiffer and originally housed the Metropolitan Savings Bank. 32 Second Avenue was built in 1917-19 and designed by Alfred…
Read More…Haff family leased the property until ca. 1865, when it was sold. At this time, the neighborhood around No. 203 Prince had dramatically changed. No longer an enclave of the wealthy…
Read More…Christopher Park. Interesting fact: The flagpole in Christopher Park, erected in 1936, commemorates the 1861 Fire Zouaves, the 11th New York Infantry that wore uniforms styled after North African tribesmen…
Read More…by Parks Department architect Julius Munckwitz with open lawn, shade trees, and curving paths. Approximately 450 trees were planted and many remain in the park to this day. 1867 Dripps…
Read More…Sullivan Street in 1850. The last of the four block fronts built on Bleecker Street (1860) had four stories and dormered roofs. The dormered roof was considerably out of fashion…
Read More…1860s. In three years alone, nine new tenement buildings were constructed on the block, paving the way for an influx of first- and second-generation German immigrants. This was the beginning…
Read More…we’re looking at some of the buildings by Pelham. Pelham was born in 1867 in Ottawa, Ontario and came to New York as a child. His father, George Brown Pelham,…
Read More…lighting and sound systems for the theatre. The brick Italianate residence at 122 was built in 1868. For over fifty years, dedicated volunteers have made it possible for the HB…
Read More…was established around 1867. Vintage photos of racing horses, boxers, and actors are on the wall include drawings of burlesque girls, as well as an image signed by Walter Winchell…
Read More…developer demolished an 1861 house at 178 Bleecker Street in our proposed South Village Historic District and we rallied to call upon the City to move ahead with landmark designation…
Read More…gangsters, rogues, jesters and other colorful characters of “Fenian New York,” a refuge for Irish revolutionaries since the failed Rising of 1867. IrishCentral.com where he writes on history, politics, and…
Read More…Empire) in 1869, Emma Goldman was a political activist and writer who supported a wide range of controversial causes, including free speech, birth control, women’s equality, union organization, and workers’…
Read More…City landmark designation report. Tifereth Israel/Town & Village Synagogue: This striking structure was built in 1866 as the First German Baptist Church; in 1926 it became the Ukrainian Autocephalic Church…
Read More…as such St. Mark’s in the Bowery established a school for poor children, the Ladies Benevolent Society, and mission chapels in the neighborhood. In 1868 members of St. Mark’s Church…
Read More…on our South Village page. Jay DiLorenzo (center), President of the Preservation League of NY State with Andrew Berman (left), GVSHP’s Executive Director, in front of the demolished 1861 row…
Read More…which was built in 1861 for William Patterson’s son, who was a liquor merchant. Another view of the corner building on the Christopher Street side from 1934. Image via NYPL….
Read More…better. No. 224 East 12th Street was constructed in 1852. Since this year pre-dates the formation of the New York City Buildings Department in 1866 an original new building permit…
Read More…16 and expanded in stages to meet the growing needs of the community. Built in 1869, the oldest part is the center section, 5 bays wide. Speaking to the architecture…
Read More…with 329 East 9th Street in 1869, followed by 333 and 335 East 9th Street being constructed in 1875, and 331 East 9th Street in 1884. The buildings are very…
Read More…within the organization, and by the mid-1860s, he was known as Boss Tweed. As the Irish Catholics became more powerful in city politics, tensions dating back to 17th century Ireland…
Read More…windows; alterations to nos. 34 and 36, which included the third floor additions, were completed c. 1866. Their survival is particularly noteworthy since the construction of the Holland Tunnel from…
Read More…board. … It was designed by Henry Colden Pelton (1867-1935). The lower floors originally contained a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a chapel, music practice rooms, a concert hall, a lounge,…
Read More…past two programs were particularly amazing, and got an especially enthusiastic reception from program participants. On Wednesday, May 20th we visited the Spanish Benevolent Society (founded in 1868) on West…
Read More…Engine Co. 33 was first established in November 1865 at 220 Mercer Street (since demolished). It moved to its current Great Jones Street location in June 1899. You can also…
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