Mills House No. 1

156 Bleecker Street | also 168C Bleecker Street, 166 Bleecker Street, 168 Bleecker Street | Greenwich Village | built 1896

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1897
November 1
Darius Ogden Mills opens a philanthropic hotel for workingmen
Banking and railroad magnate Darius Ogden Mills funds an eleven-story lodging house, designed by architect Ernest Flagg, on the site of the old Depauw Row mansions. Mills House No. 1 opens with 1,554 small rooms at 20 cents a night, meals for 15 cents, and a library, baths, and smoking room meant to keep working men off the streets.
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1958
The Village Gate jazz club opens in the basement
The Village Gate, one of Greenwich Village's leading jazz clubs, opens in the building's basement in 1958 and operates there for more than three decades. It closes in 1994, by which point the upper floors of the old Mills House have already begun their transition from a budget hotel into apartments.
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1975
The former Mills House is rebuilt into apartments called the Atrium
After operating for decades as the Greenwich Hotel and, by the 1960s, as a welfare hotel, the former Mills House No. 1 is gut-renovated in the mid-1970s into apartments known as the Atrium. It converts into a housing cooperative in the 1980s and today holds 194 apartments along with short-term rental suites.
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