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Download Brochure & Self Guided Tour of Area Historic Landmarked Buildings The Union Square Community Cover image: Labor rally in the North Plaza of Union Square Coalition is one of the many Union Square Park in 1933. This spectacular preservation-oriented organi- scene captures the spirit behind the area’s desig- Community Coalition THE UNION SQUARE COMMUNITY COALITION zations to join the NYC nation as a National Historic Landmark in recog- P.O. Box 71, Cooper Station Landmarks50 Alliance cele- nition of a site where workers exercised their New York, NY 10276 CELEBRATES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF brating the 50th anniversary constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. of the signing of the city’s The recent introduction of trees and planters The Union Square Community Coalition is a Landmarks Law. has curtailed the original intent of this space. non-profit advocacy group founded in 1980. NYC’S LANDMARKS LAW 31 UNION SQUARE WEST (1903) 2 WE HONOR OUR PAST FORMER BANK OF THE METROPOLIS (BELOW LEFT) Ladies’ Mile At 16 stories, this was Union Square’s first “skyscraper.” The Union Square Community Coalition Historic District is proud to present the 14 buildings 3 4 It still dominates the skyline of the Square’s western 5 we successfully supported for 2 horizon. Where bank tellers’ cages used to be, the ground floor behind the imposing columns is now landmark designation. 6 7 occupied by a trendy restaurant, the Blue Water Grill. 8 The Union Square UNION East 17th Street/ SQUARE Irving Place Community Coalition PARK Historic District was formed in 1980 by 1 (ca. 1920) 33 EAST 17TH STREET (1881) neighborhood residents 14 9 4 FORMER CENTURY PUBLISHING BUILDING who were alarmed that 10 severe cuts in the Parks In the so-called Queen Department’s mainte- Anne architectural style, nance and recreation budgets would cause further this structure housed the original publisher of well- deterioration in a park already overrun with drug 11 known authors like Mark users. USCC staged numerous events — from Twain and Rudyard Kipling children’s entertainers in the Pavilion to pot-luck 13 and popular magazines suppers in the sunken area just south of the Pavilion like The Century and — to bring folks back to the park. This successful St. Nicholas. Fittingly, the campaign led to the renovation of the park, including building is now a major replacing two small playgrounds with the enlarged 12 bookstore of the nation- modern playground that exists today. USCC has also wide Barnes & Noble chain. been a champion of historic preservation, resulting in the landmarking of these 14 structures, all within a ONE UNION SQUARE WEST (1890) 200 PARK AVENUE SOUTH (1908) 1 5 three-block radius of the Square. THE LINCOLN BUILDING THE EVERETT BUILDING Above: Commemorative plaque. In 1997 Union Square Park was named So named The chief dis- a National Historic Landmark. Union Square was the site of the first Labor Day parade, in 1882. because of its tinction of this Below: Early postcard shows horse-drawn carriages at the former Bank proximity to the office building, of the Metropolis on the west side of Union Square. Opposite: Of a slightly later vintage, this card shows several landmarked structures on the statue of Abra- which replaced north and east sides of the Square. Note the horseless carriage ham Lincoln, the Everett Ho- and shorter skirts on the women. which was origi- tel on the site, nally located in requires a bit the southwest of neck-craning corner of Union to observe the Square opposite remarkable the building. rose-color terra- NC. I , , 33 UNION SQUARE WEST (1893) P The monument 3 cotta tiles that THE DECKER BUILDING (ABOVE RIGHT) NO SHO has since been A architecturally moved to the IQUE PI decorate the Once home to Decker Brothers’ Pianos, the T inside of Union two topmost Spanish-Moorish architecture has been faith- AN THE Square Park, in fully restored—with one glaring exception: floors of the the crosswalk at The minaret that originally capped its crown has not two principal (ca. 1905) East 16th Street. been replicated, leaving a somewhat truncated look. facades. 3 201 PARK AVENUE SOUTH (1911) 109–111 EAST 15TH STREET (1869) 34½ EAST 12TH STREET (1855) 6 10 13 FORMER GUARDIAN LIFE INSURANCE BUILDING FORMER CENTURY ASSOCIATION CLUBHOUSE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE BUILDING With its extraor- TION In the Gilded Age of This was one A I dinary four-story C what some call Union of the first mansard roof, Square’s heyday, all-girls public F CENTURY ASSO F CENTURY O schools and a this building was before it became the erected to cater theatrical equivalent benchmark for OURTESY C O to the insurance G of today’s Broadway, the education O L needs of German this building was the of children in immigrants. Hence ultimate private club New York City. its original name, for gentlemen, many As city-owned the Germania Life of whose mansions property, it still Insurance Company. 44 UNION SQuaRE EAST (1928) were nearby. provides free 8 Along came World FORMER TAMMANY HALL activity space War I, though, and Built for the famous (and infamous) political club, and 4 IRVING Place for juveniles the battle against of both sexes designed to emulate the respectability of the old Fed- 11 (1911–1929) the German enemy. eral Hall on Wall Street, where George Washington took THE CONSOLIDATED from all five EDISON BUILDING So the company the oath of office. In 1943, Tammany sold the building boroughs. cast about for a to the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, Covering an entire city name with the which used the interior theatre space for labor rallies block between Irving Place 22 EAST 14TH STREET (1881) same number of that often spilled out into the North Plaza of Union and Third Avenue from East 14 FORMER BAUMANN BROTHERS STORE letters as Germania. Square. Landmarked in 2013, the build- 14th Street to East 15th TS They settled on C ing was recently approved for a con- HITE Street, this complex of C Guardian. Now it troversial rooftop expansion, allegedly AR structures built over almost has been renamed inspired by the dome of Monticello, BKSK two decades is perhaps again, as W Union the Virginia home of Thomas Jefferson. COURTESY most celebrated for its Square (hotel). clock tower, illuminated 20 UNION SQuaRE EAST (1907) nightly and visible from 9 105 EAST 17TH STREET (1963) 7 FORMER UNION SQUARE SAVINGS BANK afar as the tallest building FORMER GUARDIAN LIFE ANNEX in the Union Square area. Considered a compelling example of post-World War II architecture, this low-rise midblock building, which goes 126–128 EAST 13TH STREET (1904) through to East 18th Street, is a product of Skidmore, 12 FORMER HORSE AUCTION MART Owings & Merrill, one of the world’s leading architec- ture firms. Before the days of automobiles, this is where the gentry The wide bought their carriage horses. Built by Van Tassel & Kear- windows of ney, it is one of the the Annex few such structures reflect the remaining from the Gilded Age that is historic houses But for intervening buildings of lesser commercial also architectur- opposite, in or architectural merit, this fomer furniture-and-carpet ally notable for its the East 17th This Classical design, by architect Henry Bacon, has the emporium might well have been included in the nearby Beaux-Arts style. It Street/Irving solidity of an ancient Greek temple, meant to give de- Ladies’ Mile Historic District, designated in 1989. Three now provides space Place Historic positors a sense of security for their funds. Bacon went lots wide, the Baumann facade above the ground floor for various dance District, desig- on to design the imposing Lincoln Memorial in Washing- is an elaborate cast-iron composition of sunbursts, gar- companies. nated in 1998. ton, D.C. The bank is currently the Daryl Roth Theatre. lands, and huge fenestration. 4 5 C 121 EAST 17TH STREET (CIRCA 1854) E 141 EAST 17TH STREET (1889) Ladies’ Mile Historic District Behind this elaborately decorated two-story facade of pressed tin, Henry Luce and a colleague in 1922 rented an office for $55 a month C and came up with the idea for UNION Time magazine, a concept that, SQUARE East 17th Street/ D PARK Irving Place in many ways, revolutionized Historic District E journalism forever. Joseph G. Cannon on the cover of the first issue of Time magazine, B March 3, 1923. He was the leader of the Republican Party and the 40th Speaker of the House of Representatives. Originally a carriage house (architect unknown), this A simple brick structure has played many roles over the years — garage, residence, offices, café.T oday it is a two- 801 BRoadWAY (1868) AT EAST 11TH STREET A story restaurant known as The House. It is the last 19th- WE IMAGINE OUR FUTURE FORMER JAMES MCCREERY DRY GOODS STORE century survivor on its mostly 20th-century block. Its side Here, near the start of the original Ladies’ Mile, an Irish facade, facing a courtyard, has more bull’s-eye windows. The Union Square Community Coalition immigrant built one of the first department stores, looks forward to landmark protection with colossal cast-iron facades. Though the magnificent D 129 EAST 17TH STREET (1879) for these five remarkable structures. mansard roof was lost in a fire in 1972 and has been replaced by a humdrum addition, the building makes Arguably, this Recognizing that there is still much to be mined an impressive residence for apartment dwellers today. is the oldest in the historic Union Square area, USCC is starting intact apartment B TH the process of gaining landmark designation for 136 EAST 16 STREET (1850 & 1889) house in the these five additional buildings.T he first step is the This is the story of a entire city— and it is still landmarks committee of the relevant Community remarkable transform- ation — from an functioning as Board, and if the full Board approves, the matter is ordinary single-family such.
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