185 Avenue B

also 600 East 12th Street, 602 East 12th Street | East Village | built 2013

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1925
Eugene De Rosa designs the Charles Theatre, an earlier building on this corner
An earlier building on this site, the Charles Theatre, is designed by architect Eugene De Rosa in 1925 for the southeast corner of Avenue B and East 12th Street. The two-story building holds a 600-seat movie theater, offices on the second floor and five shops at one end. A triangular pediment tops the Avenue B facade where the marquee once stood.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1977
The Charles Theatre on this site closes after years as an experimental film house
An earlier building on this lot, the Charles Theatre, runs as a second-run movie house in the 1940s and is remodeled to seat 1,000 in the 1950s. In the 1960s it becomes a counterculture venue showing films by experimental filmmakers. It closes in 1977.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
2014
A seven-story mixed-use building replaces the demolished Charles Theatre
The corner section of the old Charles Theatre is torn down around 2008 and left as a canvas for local graffiti artists, and the theater is fully demolished in 2013. The firm Architectura designs a seven-story concrete mixed-use building for the site, completed in 2014 for owner Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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