Meisel Gallery building

141 Prince Street | also 137 Prince Street | SoHo | built 1897

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1897
February 19
A seven-story candy factory for Cyprien Gousset is finished at 137-141 Prince Street
The building was put up between April 1896 and February 1897 for Cyprien Gousset, and the city's landmark survey lists its original use as candy manufacturing. Jardine, Kent & Jardine designed it in brown-gray brick, stone and iron. Heavy brick piers frame a two-story base, and a row of arched windows runs across the seventh floor under a blind brick arcade.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1969
Louis K. Meisel, who coined the term Photorealism in 1969, runs one of SoHo's earliest galleries here
Louis K. Meisel, born in Brooklyn in 1942, is credited with coining the term Photorealism in 1969. Wikipedia describes his gallery at 141 Prince Street as one of the earliest art galleries in SoHo. He has written many books on the movement and its painters, including Richard Estes and Charles Bell.
Source: Wikipedia

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