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April 12, 1901: Back When the “New Law” was New
…Two previous acts had been passed in 1867 and 1879. Tenements built after 1901 are now known as “new law” tenements to differentiate them from the “pre-law” and “old law”…
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Our Newest Federal-Era Landmarks
…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…
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Walking East 7th Street: Decatur Place to Kleindeutschland
…Mayor of New York in 1877. Decatur Place experienced a major architectural and social transformation in the early 1860s. In three years alone, nine new tenement buildings were constructed on…
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Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie
…10th Street. Photo via Ephemeral NY www.ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/a-1940s-folkie-commune-on-west-10th-street/ According to the designation report of the Greenwich Village Historic District, within which this building lies, it was built in 1862 for George…
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Iron in the Sky
…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…
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827-831 Broadway
827-831 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…
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In Memoriam: Lucy Cecere
…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…
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Cornell Edwards of The Flower Stall, 1932-2011
…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…
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Rally on Sunday to Save the South Village
…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…
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Spot the Shot – Revealed!
…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…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…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….
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A Foundry on Jane Street: 2011 Village Awardee
…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…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.3.11 – 7.9.11, East Edition
…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…
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Happy Birthday Blowin’ In the Wind
…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…
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The History of Sheridan Square
L: 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…
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East 9th Street Then and Now
…annex building to the south. The photo to the left was taken in 1924. Originally built in 1862 by early department store magnate A.T. Stewart, the north building between East…
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East Village Tenement Housed “the Most Dangerous Woman in America”
…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….
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Groundbreaking Gadgets on 4th Avenue
…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…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 9.15.11: East Edition
East 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…
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If These Walls Could Talk: Merchant’s House Museum Edition
…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…
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A Nightmare on 13th Street
…Street, where his execution was witnessed by many thousands of persons…” — Reminisces of New York by an Octogenarian (1816-1860), Charles H. Haswell, 1896 In the early 1800’s a field…
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Three Cheers for Father’s Heart Church!
…of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, was formally dedicated to the service of God, yesterday…”- New York Times, Jan. 13, 1868 The handsome Gothic revival style Father’s Heart Church and its former…
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History’s Mysteries: Ghost Sign on East 6th Street
…to New York City in 1865 where they founded a hospital to treat the poor on East 5th Street. St. Francis Hospital “The medical Board of St. Francis’s hospital, situated…
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Thanksgiving Ragamuffins
…came here, an unofficial holiday since 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared a national day of giving thanks in the midst of the Civil War, and an official one beginning…
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A Sign That Tells More Than Just Street Names
…(image courtesy NYPL digital library) Begun in 1868, as New York was experiencing its post-Civil War boom in immigration and industry, the El was not only the first such elevated…
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Mourning President Lincoln on Broadway
…the president’s body was placed on view in City Hall. Later on April 26, 1865, a funeral march displaying the president’s casket proceeded up Broadway though our neighborhoods to Union…
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Building Profile: St. Denis Hotel
…often stayed there on their trips to New York. In September 1867, Mary Todd Lincoln stayed at the St. Denis, while visiting New York for the purpose of selling her…
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MacDougal Sullivan Gardens — One of New York’s Oldest and Most Special Historic Districts
…demolition permits were issued for 178 Bleecker Street, a beautiful 1861 row house that has since been replaced by a somewhat ungainly 8-story building. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the…
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Black History Month: Alex Haley
…of Minetta Lane and Minetta Street Sites of the 1863 “Draft Riots,” the largest civil disturbance in American history which resulted in the deaths of at least 119 people, mostly…
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Happy Birthday, Willem de Kooning!
…he did some of the most important work of his career. In 2016, this pair of 1866 cast-iron and masonry loft buildings were slated for demolition and replacement with a…
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Julia Ward Howe, Feminist Pioneer
…editor and writer for his short-lived newspaper, The Commonwealth. Following a visit with her husband to Washington D.C. in 1861 during which she met Abraham Lincoln, Howe was inspired to…
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2016 Village Award Winner: Julius’ Bar
…1864, a bar had taken over the space. Libations have been served there ever since, making the site one of New York City’s oldest bars in continuous operation. By the…
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East 11th Street, a Slice of East Village History
…William Graul. Graul was an established architect in New York City by 1868, and he designed a wide variety of buildings in various styles that can be found within the…
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Groundbreaking Gadgets on 4th Avenue
…hardware was hard 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…
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The Vice Presidents of the Village
…designed by architect Nathaniel D. Bush between the years 1862 and his retirement in 1895. It remains remarkably intact and is a wonderful reminder of a critical time in the…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…Isaacs-Hendricks House, the Stuyvesant Fish House was once surrounded by open land. The house sat inside a garden, which remained untouched until after Elizabeth’s death in 1854. In 1861, the…
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The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated
…on the then-outskirts of the developed city meant there was lots of room for large civic gatherings. One of the first such gatherings was in 1861, in support of the…
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Black History Month in the Village: Black Churches No Longer Standing
…Methodist Protestant Church in 1837, and then sold to the Sullivan Street Methodist Church in 1842. The Bethel AME Church purchased the church in 1862. It is noted on maps…
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Edith Wharton vs. Washington Square
…is constantly cropping up. Washington Square was, for a time, the very picture of gentility. The 1830s to 1860s saw the development of Washington Square as a desirable, moneyed neighborhood. Old New…
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Tenement House Act of 1901
…commonly used to refer to a certain type of multi-family housing. As officially defined in the Tenement House Law of 1867, a tenement is any building housing more than three…
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The First Ghetto Is Founded, and the Reverberations are Felt Centuries Later
…as a German Baptist Church in 1866, and became a Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in 1926 before becoming a synagogue in 1962. In 2013, the synagogue was advertised for sale, thus endangering…
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April 12, 1901: Back When the “New Law” was New
…forward in an era when progressive thinkers had been trying to improve tenements, which primarily housed immigrants, since the mid-19th century. Two previous acts had been passed in 1867 and…
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The End of the West Washington Market
…Hudson River Railroad opened on Gansevoort Street and West Street, and by the mid-1860s a number of vendors had left the downtown Washington Market and set up business by the…
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The Origins of St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church
…the oldest site of continuous worship in our city, and the church we know and love today isn’t even the first structure of worship at that location. An 1865 stereoview,…
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A History of the East Village in 10 Objects
…1860 that he went on to credit with winning him the presidency, is a New York City Landmark. The designation report states: Employing some of the first rolled sections (wrought-iron…
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LGBT History in All Corners of the Village: The West Village
…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. Gay activists are denied…
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What do the East Village and Bartlesville, OK have in common?
…up? Believe it or not, they are now largely based in Bartletsville, OK, following their forced relocation to the Oklahoma Territory in 1867. Thus Wright’s vision for his taproot-inspired building…
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A Glimpse of the Gilded Age on Renwick Row
…were taken around 1900 when it was owned by the Moir family. James and Mary Moir lived there from 1866 to 1900 with their two sons and several servants. James…
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Ten Years as Landmarks for Two Nearly Two Hundred Year Old Houses
…Vanderpoel & Kitchell, was founded in 1868. Ely had a long career in public service as the school commissioner, state senator, county supervisor, commissioner of public instruction, member of the United States…
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Happy 50th Landmark Anniversary St. Mark’s-in-the Bowery Church!
…Trinity Church in the United States. The church steeple and fence were added in 1828, the portico in 1858, and a brick building was incorporated in 1861. The Ernest Flagg Rectory…
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Five Hundred Years Ago, The First Ghetto Is Founded
…Tifereth Israel) was originally built as a German Baptist Church in 1866, and became a Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in 1926 before becoming a synagogue in 1962. In 2013, the synagogue was advertised…
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Immigration and the Village
…the focus of this post has been immigration, we couldn’t gloss over the subject of migration. The Village was home to a large population of African-Americans from the 1860s to…
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GVSHP summer programs
…constructed for the Metropolitan Savings Bank in 1867 and designated a landmark in 1969, is an impressive marble work of the French Second Empire style. It’s currently the meeting place…
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The Art of the Artist’s Studio
…St. Mark’s Historic District — the triangular block of houses built in 1861 on land originally owned by the Stuyvesant family. But unlike its neighbors, No.112 was radically redesigned in…
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Your Neighborhood Landmark: Firehouse Engine Co. 33
…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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LGBTQ History: Around Christopher Street
…188 Waverly Place/159 West 10th Street only began attracting large numbers of gay customers in the 1940s-1950s. Julius’s, founded in 1864 as a saloon and operating as a speakeasy in…
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Bleecker & Christopher Streets — Then & Now
…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….
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Irish Parade Riots
…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…
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Hawks With a Taste for Quality Construction
…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,…
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Program Recap: The Origins of Little Spain and The Whitney Museum
…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…
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How to Play a Historic Building
…An 1878 military drill hall is now an exhibition space for cutting-edge art and performance; an 1865 firehouse serves as a community media center; an abandoned rail line from the…
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What Was Here Before Bagatelle?
…it served as a warehouse for the provisions firm of C. Percival, which was established in 1868, and according to the book History and Commerce of New York, published 1891,…
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Happy Birthday MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District
…last of the four block fronts built on Bleecker Street (1860) had four stories and dormered roofs. The MacDougal Street side Sufficient evidence is available from Building Department records of…
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Pete Seeger Anniversary
…Village Historic District. The designation report does not mention this property is one of the former locations of the Almanac House, simply noting: “This remarkable little house, built in 1862…
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Westbeth Announced: August 7th, 1967
…constructed between the 1860’s and 1930’s, and to see the groundbreaking early designs of Richard Meier which were part of the conversion, but to see some of the great collections…
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New York City’s First Public Nurse: Lillian Wald
…in the East Village. Born in 1867 in Ohio, Wald and her family moved to Rochester, New York in 1878. In 1889 she attended the New York Hospital’s School of…
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The Flatirons of the Village and the East Village
…of Astor Place, at the corner of Stuyvesant Street and East 10th Street. The “Renwick Triangle” located at this intersection consists of seven Anglo-Italianate style houses constructed in 1862, believed…
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The Synagogues of East 6th Street
…According to research done by GVSHP, the first record of this building comes from an alteration permit in 1869, indicating that the building was being used as an office. A…
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Honorary Street Names: 1st Avenue
…1st Avenue at St. Mark’s Place is the location of Sara Curry Way. Sara Curry (1865-1940) is the founder of the Little Missionary’s Day Nursery, which provides affordable day care…
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The Andrew S. Norwood House, 241 West 14th Street
…is the home of the Spanish Benevolent Society and 243 was home to the Tammany Tough Club, a club founded in 1865 associated with Tammany Hall. 241 is the only…
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Business of the Month: Fresco Gelateria, 138 Second Avenue
…St. Mark’s Place and East Ninth Street. In 1850, the rowhouse became the home of the prominent merchant Duncan Pearsall Campbell (1781-1861) and Maria Bayard Campbell. The Campbells were very…
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A Landmark Anniversary for Westbeth
…as a pioneering large-scale industrial rehabilitation project. The oldest structure in the complex is 445-453 West Street, formerly Hook’s Steam-powered Factory Building. It was built circa 1860 in the vernacular…
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A Lot To Be Thankful For
…built in 1868. For more information on the history of these buildings, click HERE. On November 5th GVSHP presented strong testimony advocating for the landmarking of these significant properties. Decisions…
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GVSHP Keeping up the Fight
…in 1868. For more information on the history of these buildings, click HERE. Decisions by the LPC will be rendered in 2016; stay tuned! Help us continue the fight and…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
…translated his ideas into action. In 1866 in Paris, France, he gatherer a group of Americans to promote his idea to create a “national institution and gallery of art” to…
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