Gotham Hotel

356 Bowery | also 356A Bowery | NoHo | built 1832

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

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1832
Widow Mary Waldron builds houses on the Bowery around 1832, including 356 Bowery
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Tax records show that Mary Waldron, a widow, built houses on lots she owned north of Great Jones Street on the west side of the Bowery around 1832, among them 354 and 356. In 1845 she deeded 356 to Maria Higgins. The house was probably enlarged or rebuilt around 1854 under Higgins and was recorded as five stories in 1858.
“Mary Waldron, a widow, had built houses on the lots she owned on the west side of the Bowery north of Great Jones Street c. 1832…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1933
The building at 356 Bowery operates as the Gotham Hotel lodging house from about 1933 to 1967
From about 1933 the building was a lodging house called the Gotham Hotel. It stayed in that use until 1967, when new owners converted it to a store with four fine arts studios, two of them with small apartments.
“Starting c. 1933 the building was a lodging house known as the Gotham Hotel which it remained until 1967…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1970
Artist Cy Twombly is a tenant at 356 Bowery in the early 1970s
After the lodging house closed and the building was turned into artists' studios, Cy Twombly was among its tenants in the early 1970s. The landmarks commission recorded him as a tenant of the building during those years.
“One of the tenants in the early 1970s was the artist Cy Twombly.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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