East Village - Cooper Union Foundation Building

East Village (Manhattan)

Work In Progress: This neighborhood gallery is not yet complete.

The East Village was once among New York’s most prestigious residential neighborhoods, with elegant architecture in classical styles. In the mid-1800s wealthy New Yorkers moved “uptown” and waves of immigrants moved in. Pieces of Germany, Eastern Europe, and much later Latin America all became part of the Lower East Side tenement tapestry.

More than 30 individual landmarks and four historic districts earned protection of The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. The top 12 are referenced below. The NYC Landmarks Map is highly recommended!

One of the most important landmarks anchors the northwest corner of the district: The Cooper Union Foundation Building. This building was the first to use rolled iron “I” beams, so essential to development of skyscrapers. The building also contained an elevator shaft – even before passenger elevators were available. Additionally, this is where then-candidate Abraham Lincoln gave an address that catapulted him to the nomination and the Presidency.

The photos here are just a sampling of the most picturesque buildings.

East Village Recommended Reading
East Village Building Photos

◉ = Landmark. This table is sortable and searchable.

LMname#streetbuiltarchitect
Astor Place IRT Subway EntranceAstor Placeunknown
51Astor Place2013Fumihiko Maki
Cooper Union Foundation Building50Astor Place1859Frederick A. Peterson
141Avenue Aunknown
First Houses29Avenue A1936Frederick L. Ackerman
50Avenue Bunknown
131Avenue B
Grace Church800Broadway1846James Renwick, Jr.
The Standard, East Village25Cooper Place2009Carlos Zapata, Perkins Eastman
Cooper Union41Cooper Square2009Thom Mayne - Morphosis
206E 10th Streetunknown
213E 10th Streetunknown
Dora Park Apartments172E 10th Streetunknown
Sarah Powell Huntington House347E 10th Streetunknown
293E 10th Streetunknown
317E 10th Street1848James C. Whitlock
329E 10th Street1853
311E 10th Street1853
St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church288E 10th Street1883James Renwick, Jr.
Tompkins Square Branch, NY Public Library331E 10th Street1904McKim, Mead & White
All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church206E 11th Street1852unknown
Webster Hall125E 11th Street1886Charles Rentz
St. Marks Rectory232E 11th Street1900Ernest Flagg
NYC Free Public Bath538E 11th Street1905Arnold William Brunner
126E 12th Streetunknown
St. Ann's Church120E 12th Street1847unknown
Elizabeth Home for Girls307E 12th Street1892Calvert Vaux
151E 3rd Street
141E 3rd Street
Most Holy Redeemer Church165E 3rd Street
246E 4th Streetunknown
235E 4th Street
Merchant House Museum29E 4th Street1832unknown
542E 5th Street
545E 5th Street
226E 6th Street1890Jobst Hoffman
228E 6th Street1890Jobst Hoffman
Tompkin Square Lodging House295E 8th Street1887Calvert Vaux
206E 9th Streetunknown
True North127Fourth Avenueunknown
U.S. Post Office - Cooper Station93Fourth Avenueunknown
Grace Memorial94Fourth Avenue1883James Renwick, Jr.
141Second Avenueunknown
144Second Avenueunknown
145Second Avenueunknown
151Second Avenueunknown
159Second Avenueunknown
166Second Avenueunknown
170Second Avenueunknown
12th Street Ale House192Second Avenue
St. Mark's in the Bowery Church165Second Avenue1799Ithiel Towne, unknown
101Second Avenue1880Julius Boekell
Ottendorfer Branch, NY Public Library135Second Avenue1884William Schickel
Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital137Second Avenue1884William Schickel
71Second Avenue1886Adam Munch
69Second Avenue1887Julius Kastner
77Second Avenue1903George F. Pelham
97Second Avenue1903Sass & Smallheiser
65Second Avenue1926Charles B. Meyers
105Second Avenue1926Harrison Wiseman
Village East189Second Avenue1926Harrison G. Wiseman
Saul Birns Building111Second Avenue1928Ralph H. Segal
8St. Marks Placeunknown
10St. Marks Placeunknown
32St. Marks Placeunknown
Daniel Leroy House20St. Marks Place1832unknown
German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse12St. Marks Place1889William C. Frohne
Barney Building - NYU28Stuyvesant Street1896unknown
Nicholas and Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish House21Stuyvesant Street1804unknown
110Third Avenue

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