37 East 12th Street

Greenwich Village | built 1900

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  1. 1896

    December

    Builder Albert Wagner finishes an eight-story Italian Renaissance loft at 37 East 12th Street

    Wagner bought the old building on the lot in November 1895 and announced a modern business structure of eight or nine stories. He gave it a two-story cast-iron base covered in arabesques, terra-cotta ornament above, and a full-height Ionic column at the center. It was finished by December 1896 and soon filled with garment makers, among them Henry Cohen & Co., makers of silk shirtwaists.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1902

    September

    Fashion Cloak and Suit Company is found cleaned out and goes into bankruptcy

    Fromberg & Goldstein moved in during March 1902 as the newly formed Fashion Cloak and Suit Company. By September a supplier, Siegel Brothers, said 13 pieces of cloth worth $233 had not been paid for. A deputy sent to the factory found it closed and was told it had been emptied the previous Saturday, and creditors filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition on September 18.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1932

    The Communist-run Workers School Forum rents space on the second floor

    During the Depression the loft tenants shifted from garment makers to a mix of trades. The most notable newcomer was the Workers School Forum, a Communist-affiliated group that leased second-floor space by 1932.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1935

    February

    An Italian-language radical newspaper, L'Unita Operaia, sets up its office in the building

    In 1935 the two-year-old paper L'Unita Operaia moved in. The Daily Worker described it on February 7 as run by revolutionary Italian workers who fought Mussolini's propaganda in the United States. A Massachusetts legislative committee on un-American activities later described it in 1938 as a monthly under Communist influence.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 2016

    Kenshire Galleries leaves and the loft becomes six apartments, completed in 2016

    The antiques dealer Kenshire Galleries had arrived around 1975 and stayed until about 2015, selling items such as gilt Italian armchairs. In February 2015 developer Edward J. Minskoff announced a residential conversion with just six units. When it was finished in 2016 there was one apartment per floor from the second through sixth, a duplex on top and a ground-floor maisonette.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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