CBGB
313 Bowery | also 315 Bowery, 5 Extra Place | East Village | built 1920
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- 1878
Two Old Law tenements are built at 313 and 315 Bowery
Architect J. Correja designs two Old Law tenements at 313 and 315 Bowery for owner Jacob Weeks in 1878. They stand as separate buildings until 1934, when they are joined into a single lodging house.
- 1934
The tenements are combined into the Palace Bar & Hotel flophouse
Architects Scacchetti & Siegel remove the top two floors of each tenement and take out the interior walls between them. The result is a four-story, four-bay lodging house behind a yellow-brick Art Deco facade. It becomes the Palace Bar & Hotel, a Bowery flophouse that houses about 500 poor men.
- 1973
Hilly Kristal opens CBGB in the former flophouse's ground floor
Hilly Kristal, who ran a bar called Hilly's on the Bowery on this site from 1969, renames the venue CBGB, for the country, bluegrass and blues music he wants to book. The club instead becomes a center of punk and new wave, hosting early shows by the Ramones, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads and the Patti Smith Group. It closes on October 15, 2006, with a final show by Patti Smith.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
CBGB's former home joins the National Register of Historic Places
In 2013 the former CBGB building at 315 Bowery is added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Bowery Historic District. The listing comes about seven years after the club closed. By then the storefront has become a John Varvatos clothing shop.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- 313-315 BoweryVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- CBGB (former)Place Matters
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