Greenwich House Pottery

16 Jones Street | West Village | built 1928

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

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  1. 1928

    June 27

    Greenwich House lays the cornerstone of its Jones Street workshop annex

    Greenwich House treasurer Marshall Field laid the cornerstone of a new annex at 16 Jones Street on June 27, 1928, with John D. Rockefeller Sr. among the donors, giving $10,000. Delano & Aldrich designed the Colonial Revival building, which was finished within the year. It was intended for stone, wood and iron shops where young people trained in the art trades.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1930

    A foundry for bronze and metalwork is added to the workshops

    In 1930 Marshall Field donated a foundry for the Jones Street workshops, adding bronze and metal work to the stone-cutting and woodworking classes. Boys trained under an apprenticeship system that the New York Times likened to the one used by Renaissance masters. An arrangement with the public schools let them attend regular classes in the mornings and the workshops in the afternoons.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1948

    October 7

    Greenwich House reopens the Jones Street workshops in 1948

    The city had leased the workshops since 1936 for a dollar a year on a five-year trial, and in 1941 the Board of Education, disappointed with the results, shut the program down. The building then served as a branch of the New York Public Library for seven years. Greenwich House reopened it on October 7, 1948, and the pottery school moved in from Barrow Street. Pottery gradually became the building's main activity, and in 1952 the kilns and materials of the Inwood Pottery Studios were installed there.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1956

    Stanley Rosen begins teaching at Greenwich House Pottery

    Ceramic artist Stanley Rosen taught at Greenwich House Pottery from 1956 to 1959. The studio, which began in 1909 and works from the Jones Street building, also counted Bernard Leach, Shōji Hamada, Peter Voulkos and Robert Turner among its teachers.

    Source: Wikipedia

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