NoHo and Astor Place History

The Merchant's House Museum is a four-story brick and white marble rowhouse that stands out on East Fourth Street for its late-Federal and Greek Revival facade. Built in eighteen thirty-two, it holds the distinction of being the only…

Colonnade Row is defined by a series of weathered Corinthian columns that once linked a grand, nine-building complex of marble-faced townhouses. Built between eighteen thirty-one and eighteen thirty-three, the structures were originally…

The Public Theater is housed within a grand, Romanesque Revival brick building at four hundred twenty-five Lafayette Street. Originally constructed in stages between eighteen fifty-three and eighteen eighty-one to serve as the Astor…

The most recognizable feature here is a black steel cube resting on one of its corners, known to most simply as the Alamo or the Cube. Created by artist Tony Rosenthal in nineteen sixty-seven, the eight-foot sculpture is built of Cor-Ten…

The Foundation Building of the Cooper Union is a brownstone palazzo defined by its heavily enframed, round-arched windows and two prominent round-arched porches at the north and south ends. Completed in eighteen fifty-nine, this massive…

McSorley’s Old Ale House is identified by its sawdust-strewn floors and walls crowded with artifacts, newspapers, and photographs that have not been removed or rearranged since nineteen ten. Founded in eighteen fifty-four by Irish…

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery sits at the intersection of East Tenth Street and Second Avenue, distinguished by its fieldstone Georgian walls and a Greek Revival steeple that rises above the surrounding East Village. This location is the…