Margo Feiden Galleries

15 East 9th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1845

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1844

    Edward Carey has 15 East 9th Street built in 1844-45; a floor is added and the house remodeled in the 1920s

    Edward Carey was the original owner of the brick house, built in 1844-45. Its top floor had already been raised before the remodeling of the 1920s, when the cornice was removed and the front wall carried up as a stone-capped parapet. A French door and small iron balcony were cut into the top floor, and the rusticated basement entrance, framed by a heavy molding with a keystone, remains.

    “This brick house of 1844-45, built for Edward Carey, was consider­ably remodeled in the Nineteen-twenties after its top floor had already been raised.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1969

    Margo Feiden opens a gallery with an exhibition of Diane Arbus photographs

    Margo Feiden opened a gallery in 1969 and hosted an exhibition of Diane Arbus photographs; the next year she showed Joel-Peter Witkin. Margo Feiden Galleries, at 15 East 9th Street, also exhibited Raphael Soyer, Will Barnett, Ruth Gikow and Kurt Vonnegut, and Feiden became the exclusive representative of the caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

    “In 1969, Feiden opened a gallery, and hosted an exhibition of Arbus' photographs. In 1970, Feiden exhibited the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1994

    November

    Margo Feiden has the street outside her gallery closed to paint a 40-foot Al Hirschfeld self-portrait

    In November 1994, gallery owner Margo Feiden arranged to close the street outside her gallery on East 9th Street while craftsmen reproduced a self-portrait of her client Al Hirschfeld on the asphalt. The drawing was forty feet long. It was written up in the New York Times under the title "A Portrait of the Artist on a City Street."

    Source: Wikipedia

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