…Warehouse/Annex, 770 Broadway (8th Street) But by 1896, when Parrish began working for them, Wanamakers had expanded to New York City, with a grand department store (formerly the A.T.Stewart Store)…
Read More…Michael Goldblum, and Anne Holford-Smith found this signage acceptable. Michael Devonshire stated that it was too much. Art wall and awning above art wall: Kim Vauss, Diana Chapin, and Anne…
Read More…Anne’s Church, 110-124 E. 12th St. St. Ann’s Church and rectory, pre-demolition. On 12th Street, between 4th and 3rd Aves., sits the site of the former St. Ann’s Church. In…
Read More…of Nora Moran. Poster of The Sin of Nora Moran from 1933 showing Zita Johann In 1927, a young Anna Mae Clift (who, by the way, was a cousin of…
Read MoreThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District on April 29, 1969. One of the city’s oldest and still largest historic districts, it’s…
Read More…solo act, LeBrun designed St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church and school on East 12th Street and East 11th Street respectively. This through block complex was built in 1870-71 and the…
Read More…to speak HERE The Livestream of the hearing will be on YouTube and is available HERE Join the meeting on Zoom to testify when the item is announced HERE. (There is a three-minute…
Read More…at 30 East 14th Street. Admiral was a young, talented woman hoping to learn the art of painting at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, just blocks away from…
Read More…with the Service Cross of the German Eagle for his contributions to aviation by Hermann Göring on behalf of the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Charles Lindbergh with Hermann Göring. Not a…
Read More…forms. Through his service, Kahn was granted U.S. citizenship and benefits under the GI Bill. He used those benefits, when he left the service, to study with Hans Hofmann in…
Read More…vote on our new slate of trustees. The 34th Annual Village Awards and 44th Annual Meeting of Village Preservation is free and open to the public, and all are welcome…
Read More…a bicentennial anniversary this year, and which was the very first church in Greenwich Village (its name, “in the field,” referred to its location in what was then a rural…
Read More…century styles: Queen Anne, Renaissance and Beaux Arts. The Queen Anne style emerged in the United States in the mid-1870’s and enjoyed immense popularity in the 1880’s and 1890’s. It…
Read More…boasts a cast-iron facade. Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library. In the Aguilar Free Library Society’s Annual report, its directors celebrated “the transfer of the library at 110th Street from a…
Read More…ended up staying in New York. To fund its efforts, the Society organized an annual ball, and relied on five dollar annual subscriptions and members’ donations. The Society’s widely successful…
Read More…can be found in this district. On April 13-14, 2019, we held a weekend-long celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of the district’s designation, but throughout 2019, we marked this…
Read More…look at some of the historic retail establishments in our area. Last week we looked at Wanamaker’s huge store and annex near Astor Place. Farther north at Union Square, a…
Read MoreThis past week we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the New York City Landmarks Law, but there are many other anniversaries to celebrate this time of year as well. And…
Read More…former Perkins student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship during which Sullivan evolved into Keller’s teacher and companion. Young Helen Keller with Alexander…
Read MoreIn an important victory for preservation efforts, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has announced that they will hear and consider for potential landmark designation approximately 95 sites previously considered for “de-calendaring,”…
Read MoreConducted in partnership with the Merchant’s House Museum In these dog days of summer, join Merchants House Museum Historian Ann Haddad to learn how the Tredwell family and their peers spent…
Read MoreThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District on April 29, 1969. One of the city’s oldest and still largest historic districts, it’s…
Read More…Neidich, Trevor & Margaret Stewart ACTIVIST Bill Abrams & Julie Salamon, Mary Ann & Frank Arisman, Caroline Benveniste & Jacques Ya Deau, Hillary Butler, David Hottenroth, John Lamb & David…
Read More…our celebration of the thoroughfare’s 200th anniversary, we’ll explore some of the early mansions constructed on Fifth Avenue below 14th Street in the years prior to achieving social victory. Only…
Read More…Of course, over the past decade, we have lost some very important and historic religious structures as well. St. Anne’s Church St Anne’s Church before demolition, a former Roman Catholic…
Read MoreEach year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June…
Read MoreOkay, everyone, if you’ve been considering joining us for our annual house tour, but haven’t yet purchased tickets,then now is your chance! It’s this Sunday, May 3rd from 1 –…
Read More…and Jeremiah Shea. Our Annual Benefit House Tour. In May, our Annual Benefit House Tour was our largest grossing benefit ever, granting hundreds of tour goers exclusive access to some…
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again! Every June, as part of Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting, we highlight with our Village Awards those special businesses, organizations, individuals, and places that make…
Read MoreFront entrance of the Merchant’s House Museum. Photo courtesy of static.panoramio.com. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Merchant’s House Museum. The museum is the only historic house…
Read More…not have the benefit of Landmarks review, which is a shame given its prominent location and proximity to the surrounding historic structures. 22-36 Astor Place. But interestingly, the 20+ story…
Read More…then its current location in 1927 — and passed the 12th Street building on to St. Ann’s Catholic Church. St. Ann’s during demolition, 2005, from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive…
Read MoreFollowing a year and a half campaignspearheaded by Village Preservation, today the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission announced that they will consider the Stonewall for landmark designation, which would make it New York…
Read More…thing. Anna, Ilias, and Vanessa Iliopoulos own and run the popular Fresco Gelateria, on Second Avenue between East 9th Street and St. Mark’s Place. They live in separate apartments in…
Read MoreTwo incredibly important events in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender) history and civil rights with recent or upcoming anniversaries took place in Greenwich Village. One of course is the…
Read More…of our 100th Business of the Month. Feted six amazing community leaders, non-profits, and local small businesses at our Annual Village Awards. Staged our beloved Annual Spring House Tour for…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Check out our year-long activities and celebrations at gvshp.org/GVHD50. We recently posted about…
Read More…Stuyvesant’s farm, Webster Hall and Annex Webster Hall, located on 11th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues, is notable not only for it’s handsome Queen Anne and Renaissance Revival architecture,…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read More…paint murals. She worked on and off for the WPA until 1943 when the agency dissolved. While working for the WPA, Krasner also studied under German artist Hans Hofmann at…
Read More…Annual Halloween Party Little Missionary’s Day Nursery will be hosting their annual Halloween party in the St. Mark’s Church Garden at 131 East 10th Street. There will be face painting,…
Read MoreWith our Annual Awards coming up on June 17th, over the next few weeks on our blog we will present a little more information about each of our 2015 Annual…
Read More…tech development has resulted in demolition of more and more historic structures, and out-of-scale, out-of-context new development. We’re welcoming Anna Marcum and Sarah Eccles, our preservation team, to candidly discuss…
Read More…At the time, the Provincetown Playhouse was just one year old. Allen Russell Mann was also known as Forrest Mann, Betty Turner was a few years older than the more famous actress of…
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again…time for Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards! The Village Awards recognize and honor some of the businesses, organizations, and institutions that make our…
Read More…in 1859 and later renamed William Ottmann & Company (around 1876) of Fulton Market. William Ottmann & Company was sold around 1916 to rival Beinecke & Company, who were originally…
Read More…pianist; their marriage was annulled in 1946. She completed her BA from Brooklyn College in 1947, and a masters from Columbia University’s Teacher’s College in 1948. Through her first husband,…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read MoreThis is the second of six posts highlighting 2015 Annual Awards recipients. Visit here for more information on the 2015 Village Awards and Annual Meeting. The first blog post highlighted…
Read More…majestic elk, shot and stuffed.” Facade of St. Ann’s in front of Founders Hall First constructed in 1847 as the 12th Street Baptist Church, the church was rebuilt under the…
Read MoreEast 12th Street Dorm / St. Ann’s Church NYU In late 2005, NYU announced plans to build a 26-story mega-dorm on the site of the demolished St. Ann’s Church, on…
Read MorePeter Newton and Forest Mann outside “The Ink Pot” office c. January 15, 1917. Photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals. Source: Library of Congress. Happy New Year! And what better way…
Read MoreEach year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. On June 17th, 2020…
Read More…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…
Read More…things to say good-bye to. GVSHP volunteers greet visitors during our 2011 House Tour Benefit As tonight is our annual volunteer thank you party, I thought it appropriate to devote…
Read More…other flamboyant characters took on a life of its own. 45 years later, the parade has become an annual extravaganza with a reported 60,000 participants and 2 million spectators. Jefferson…
Read More…the latest in a long line of projects announced or begun under the rezoning that deviated from the City’s promises and predictions. At 32 Thompson Street, the City initially predicted…
Read More…our 41st Annual Meeting and 31st Annual Awards. You’ll not only get to hear about Village Preservation’s year of organizational progress and accomplishment in the most trying of circumstances, but…
Read MoreThis is one of a series of blog posts which highlights the information found in our Village Independent Democrats collection, added to our Preservation History Archive in early 2024. In 1953, Robert Moses announced plans…
Read More…12th Street building was the allowance of men and women to sit together in the pews for the first time. St. Ann’s, 2005 (now demolished). From these humble beginnings, Temple…
Read MoreWith Village Preservation Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann Friday, Jan. 29 at 2:00pm Adaptive reuse, the process of adapting old structures for new uses, defines the built…
Read More…about GVSHP’s efforts to halt these plans, please click here. St. Ann’s Church Facade of St. Ann’s Church with NYU dorm behind it …
Read More…ca. 1890–92, and Eleanor Hewitt, ca. 1888. Collection of Anna Engesser Parmee. Cooper Union, not unlike Columbia, was navigating changes in 1963. Around that time Columbia announced it would be…
Read More…proposal for a South Village Historic District (one-third of the proposed area has been landmarked but we are still fighting hard to gain landmark protections for the remainder). Together, Anna…
Read More…and National Register Photos Baumann Brothers Furniture and Carpets Store, 22-26 East 14th Street Baumann Brothers Furniture and Carpets Store NYC LPC Designation Report Brown Building (originally Asch…
Read More…a big musical number, Oklahoma! would open with a lone cowboy singing gently about corn and meadows. Celeste Holm as Ado Annie in Rogers and Hammerstein’s groundbreaking Oklahoma! One of the…
Read More…her own and almost magically found that dandelion and red clover, which also happen to grow almost anywhere, could help transform her to a healthy state. Anna Bardas, one of…
Read More…The early years of the village halloween parade at Westbeth. Photo courtesy of Shelley Seccombe. The Village Halloween Parade, which had its origins at Westbeth, celebrates its 40th anniversary tonight….
Read More…Kitchen. Farther down the block from Jobst Hoffmann in the early 1880s was the Rev. Hermann Raegener, pastor of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church on Sixth Street. His assistant, the…
Read More…celebrations. The television sitcom Friends, which premiered on September 22, 1994, is celebrating its 25th anniversary! The show presented a group of young twenty-somethings finding their way in New York…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read More…Plan, cheer them and our five other wonderfully deserving awardees on Monday, June 17th at 6:30 pm at the GVSHP Annual Meeting and 23rd Annual Village Awards — RSVP here….
Read More…located at 78 Fifth Avenue south of Union Square. Flatiron, structural design assited by Marion Parker Whitehall and Annex, structural design by Marion Parker and Elmina Wilson respecitvely Metropolitan Life…
Read More…Tonight, GVSHP will present our Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony. This evening will look back on the work of the Society over the last year, while honoring those who make…
Read More…Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation, Sarah Bean Apmann. Sarah Bean Apmann has worked as an architectural historian in historic preservation for the past twenty years. She received her…
Read More…the Giants won the Superbowl! But perhaps most notably, on June 10, 1991, Village Preservation held its first Annual Village Awards! Since 1991, we have held the Awards each year…
Read More…its Annual Summer Street Theater and founded the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade with fellow 2018 Village Awardee Ralph Lee. Also in its first year, TNC moved to 113 Jane Street. Now…
Read More…of LGBTQ life A Drag March Storyslam: Tales of Glamour and Resistance — On the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riot and the 25th Anniversary of the Drag March, we…
Read More…issues vital to lesbian survival and visibility, in her apartment here at 52 E 1st Street, with longtime lesbian activists Maxine Wolfe, Anne-Christine d’Adesky, Sarah Schulman, Marie Honan, and Anne…
Read More…this portion of the street. East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, which includes ornate Queen Anne-style tenements and St. Stanislaus Church (c. 1899-1901). Photo by Chris Hedick….
Read More…the artist’s long-overlooked contributions to the Ab-Ex movement have finally been acknowledged in “Women of Abstract Expressionism” (2016–17) a traveling exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum. Joann Gedney Joann Gedney at her…
Read More…(1839-1922) in Philadelphia, moved to this New York location in 1896. Eleven years later, the department store had constructed a huge annex across East 9th Street to the south of its…
Read More…Village Preservation’s crucial work to educate about and advocate for the distinctive character and irreplaceable architecture of our neighborhoods. Our Annual House Tour Benefit takes place on Sunday, May 5th from…
Read More…and lesbian activists Maxine Wolfe, Anne-Christine d’Adesky, Sarah Schulman, Marie Honan, and Anne Maguire. The Lesbian Avengers inspired chapters all over the world and began the annual Dyke March in…
Read More…scene. She left New York and moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she landed a job at the University of Michigan doing secretarial work and writing for the Journal of…
Read More…L: Ann Magnuson spinning at Club 57; Right top: entrance to Club 57; Right bottom: Ann Magnuson standing at Club’s entrance…..all images courtesy of Harvey Wang One night in 1979,…
Read More…Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) virtual public hearing: November 22, 2022 at 9:30 AM via YouTube and Zoom Registration information at https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/hearings/hearings.page For instructions on how to participate in virtual LPC public…
Read MoreOff the Grid is highlighting the 2016 Village Awards winners in the lead up to the June 14th Annual Meeting & Award Ceremony. Click here for more information about the…
Read More…announcing that Washington Square Village’s award-winning Sasaki Garden is open to the public — that is, before it demolishes the garden to make way for massive new buildings and an…
Read MoreManhattan — Capping a four year drive by Village Preservation, the City announced today it intends to landmark two sites we have proposed for landmark designation and have long campaigned for: The LGBT…
Read More…Square was the Restaurant du Grand Vatel on Bleecker Street, where Parisian exiles mingled with American artists and authors. In fact, an eighth anniversary celebration of the bloody revolution of…
Read More…Conspirators.” In January of 1917, Duchamp and a group of fellow artists (including poet Gertrude Drick; painter John Sloan; and Provincetown Playhouse actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and Charles Ellis) entered…
Read More…January 23, 1884. Although DeVinne Press is long gone, the name lives on above the main entrance below terra cotta designs. The building gained an annex in 1891 at 21-23…
Read More…2nd Annual Tulip Gala is coming up, so join the party! Here is more information from our friend Joe Mayock: The Abingdon Square Conservancy will hold its Second Annual Tulip…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read MoreGVSHP’s Annual Meeting and Awards are quickly approaching (this coming Monday night from 6:30 to 8pm at the New School’s Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street — RSVP here). This year…
Read More…Harry all performed here. Bea Arthur Residence, 222 East 13th Street Before and after images of 222 East 13th Street, the Bea Arthur Residence The Bea Arthur Residence for homeless…
Read More…range of styles from Italianate and Neo-Grec to Beaux Arts and Neo-Renaissance. Meeting Place: This will be shared via your registration email ahead of the event. Anna Marcum (She/Her) is VP’s…
Read More…friends). This is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Check out our year-long activities and celebrations at gvshp.org/GVHD50. Khalil Gibran, Artist,…
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