15 East 15th Street

Union Square | built 1877

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1853
A one-story brick structure, probably a stable, stands on the wedge-shaped lot
By 1853 the site, part of Henry Spingler's early 19th-century farm, held a one-story brick structure that the Landmarks Commission believes was probably a stable. The lot was divided into city lots in 1810 and its odd wedge shape follows an old farm boundary. This was an earlier building on the site.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1877
Colonel Michael M. Van Beuren builds a store-and-flats building on an oddly shaped lot
Colonel Michael M. Van Beuren covered his wedge-shaped lot with a three-story building designed by Benjamin Warner and built by C. H. Tucker and Son. It had two ground-floor stores and a one-family flat at each end of the upper floors, probably for the shopkeepers. The Landmarks Commission calls it an uncommon surviving building type in the Ladies' Mile district.
“…two stores on the ground floor and a one-family flat on each end of its upper two floors…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1914
Glaze and McCready Shoes occupies one of the two stores from the building's opening until at least 1914
Glaze and McCready Shoes, a tenant typical of the Ladies' Mile district, rented one of the building's two ground-floor stores from its opening and was still listed there in 1914. By the 1950s the ground floor held storage, the second floor held offices, and just the third floor was still a home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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