130 West 57th Street
also 128 West 57th Street, 132 West 57th Street | Midtown | built 1908
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- 1908
An artists' studio building opens on West 57th Street with 36 studios
Painter Robert Vonnoh bought four brownstones on the site in 1907, and the new 130 West 57th Street Corporation hired Pollard and Steinam to replace them. Completed in October 1908, the building held 36 studios, with the double-height ones facing 57th Street. Its location on the street's south side gave the artists sunlight from the north.
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- 1927
Novelist William Dean Howells lives here, and his son stays until 1927
Novelist William Dean Howells lived in the building, and his son, the architect John Mead Howells, also resided there until 1927. Another resident was the painter Childe Hassam, who sometimes showed the building's trapezoidal windows in his Impressionist canvases. Marion Wilson's late-night parties led Hassam and other tenants to file nuisance complaints, which did not succeed.
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- 1938
Metropolitan Life buys the building at auction
The building was converted to rental apartments in 1937, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company bought it at auction the next year for $300,000. Through the mid-20th century, tenants included Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones, and Tony Bennett lived on the ninth floor.
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- 1999
The city designates the building a landmark
New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building an individual city landmark on October 19, 1999. By then it was mostly offices, and its ground-floor storefronts had held a Motown Cafe and a Planet Hollywood merchandise shop, which also served the neighboring building at 140 West 57th Street.
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