Minetta Lane Theatre

290 Avenue of the Americas | Greenwich Village | built 1941

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

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1941
H. I. Feldman builds a Colonial Revival apartment house on an irregular Sixth Avenue lot
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In 1940-41 the architect H. I. Feldman designed this six-story Colonial Revival apartment building for the Sixth Avenue Minetta Corporation. It stands on a block reshaped by the lengthening of Sixth Avenue in the 1920s, which gives it a highly irregular footprint, with small public parks to the north and south. An inset entrance court with angled bays leads to a one-story brick entrance pavilion with a broken-pedimented surround.
“Sited on one of the blocks affected by the lengthening of Sixth Avenue in the 1920s, the building has a highly irregular footprint.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1963
Advertising writer Imogene Powell Frost, a published author on jade, lives here until her death
Imogene Powell Frost was living at 290 Sixth Avenue when she died in 1963. She had worked at the J. Walter Thompson agency, where she wrote copy for Kraft Foods, and she had also published on the subject of jade. The New York Times ran her obituary on September 18, 1963.
“Imogene Powell Frost, who lived at 290 Sixth Avenue at the time of her death in 1963, wrote advertising for Kraft Foods…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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