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NoHo was designated
as a historic district on June 29, 1999. Some of the
notable landmarks are:
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The
Bayard-Condict Building (65 Bleecker)
Built just east of Broadway on Bleecker St. (65 Bleecker), the Bayard-Condict Building, is the only New York Building by noted Chicago architect Louis Sullivan and was his first solo commission. Its significance is not in its height but in its graceful façade, which substantially increased the glass window area in proportion to its solid wall, foreshadowing today’s curtain-of-glass high-rises.
So advanced was the Bayard-Condict Building that, six months before it was finished, the Architectural Record proclaimed it as “the nearest approach yet in New York… to solving the problem of the skyscraper.” The Bayard-Condict Building is both an official city landmark and a designated National Historic Landmark.¹
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The DeVinne Press Building (393-399 Lafayette)
Built in 1886; previously housed the publisher of Scribner’s, St. Nicholas, and Century magazines. |
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Colonnade Row (428-434 Lafayette)
Colonnade Row is among the greatest architectural treasures of the Village. Built on Lafayette St. in 1832, its official name is LaGrange Terrace, after Lafayette’s country estate in France, though this ensemble row is really a monument to fur trader and real-estate baron, John Jacob Astor.¹ |
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The Joseph Papp Public Theater (425 Lafayette)
Built in 1849; formerly the Astor Library. Now houses the theater named after the American theatrical director and producer who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival and produced well-known Broadway shows such as the Chorus Line. |
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The Cable building (611-621 Broadway)
Designed in 1892, by McKim, Mead and White firm. Previously
a power plant for the Metropolitan Cable car line. |
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The Schermerhorn Building (376-380 Lafayette)
Built in 1889; designed by architect Henry Hardenbergh.
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