Gene Frankel Theatre building

24 Bond Street | NoHo | built 1920

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1893

    Buchman & Deisler design a six-story Renaissance Revival loft building for Philip Gomprecht at 24 Bond Street

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    The firm of Buchman & Deisler designed this six-story store-and-loft building in 1893 for owner Philip Gomprecht, using Roman brick with limestone and terra-cotta trim and cast-iron columns at the storefront. Early in the twentieth century it housed garment, hat and fur firms. Later tenants included the Boro Paper Box Company (about 1935 to 1970), Regal Photo Engraving, and I. Klein & Co., an artificial-flower maker.

    “…designed in 1893 by the architectural firm of Buchman & Deisler for owner Philip Gomprecht…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1972

    October

    Robert Mapplethorpe gets $15,000 from Sam Wagstaff toward a loft at 24 Bond Street

    In October 1972 the curator and collector Sam Wagstaff gave the young Robert Mapplethorpe $15,000 toward a loft at 24 Bond Street, a short distance from Wagstaff's own loft. The money let Mapplethorpe set up a home and studio of his own. He kept the Bond Street loft until his death in 1989, and after buying a larger loft on West 23rd Street he continued to use the Bond Street space as a darkroom.

    “In October 1972, Wagstaff gave him $15,000 toward a loft at 24 Bond Street, only a short distance from his own loft.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1976

    Studio Rivbea's 1976 festival at Sam Rivers's Bond Street loft is recorded as the five-LP set Wildflowers

    Saxophonist Sam Rivers turned his Bond Street loft, which he had held since 1969, into Studio Rivbea, named partly for his wife Beatrice. Donations at the door covered the rent and helped pay the musicians, and impromptu sessions often ran into the early morning. A 1976 festival there was recorded as Wildflowers, a five-LP compilation that the writer Will Hermes calls the best document of the loft-jazz scene.

    Source: Untapped New York

  4. 1986

    The Gene Frankel Theatre and Workshop makes its home on the ground floor of 24 Bond Street

    Since 1986 the ground floor of 24 Bond Street has housed the Gene Frankel Theatre and Workshop. The upper floors had already been converted from garment and hat manufacturing to live/work lofts by artists in the 1970s. The city's landmarks commission describes the building as largely unchanged from its late nineteenth-century appearance.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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