18 Wooster Street
SoHo | built 1890
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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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- 1890
S. E. Cohen & Brothers complete a brick-and-terra-cotta store at 18-20 Wooster, later cut down to a garage
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The firm S. E. Cohen & Brothers had the store at 18-20 Wooster built between August 1889 and January 1890. Brunner & Tryon were the architects, W. D. Robinson the builder and H. D. Powers the mason, and the facade combined brick and terra cotta. The district report says it was built together with No. 22 next door. In 1964 the building was drastically altered and became a one-story garage.
- 2011
The Swiss Institute moves into a 5,000-square-foot space at 18 Wooster
From 2011 to 2016 the Swiss Institute, a nonprofit founded in 1986 by Swiss expatriates, occupied a roughly 5,000-square-foot space at 18 Wooster Street. Since 1994 it had been at 495 Broadway, on the New Era Building's third floor. At Wooster Street it staged its first design exhibition in 2014, and in early 2016 the space hosted the accessories brand Mansur Gavriel's presentation of its fall/winter 2016 collection.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
Jeffrey Deitch reopens his gallery at 18 Wooster after five years of renting it to the Swiss Institute
In July 2016 the dealer Jeffrey Deitch brought his Lower Manhattan gallery back to 18 Wooster Street. His biography describes it as the space he had run from 1996 to 2010, which he rented to the Swiss Institute for the following five years. Deitch had started Deitch Projects in SoHo in 1996, and has since run the Wooster Street gallery alongside a second space at 76 Grand Street.
“In July 2016, he reopened his Lower Manhattan gallery at 18 Wooster Street, the space he ran from 1996 to 2010 and rented out to the Swiss Institute…”
Source: Wikipedia
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