40 Wooster Street

SoHo | built 1896

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

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1896
June 19
Buchman & Deisler finish a six-story brick and terra-cotta store at 40 Wooster Street for William Burke
Work on 40 Wooster Street began on October 11, 1895, and the building was complete on June 19, 1896. Buchman & Deisler designed it as a store for William Burke, with six stories, a brick and terra-cotta facade and iron elements. The Landmarks Commission's survey notes only that the ground floor was later altered.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1986
Colin de Land moves his gallery American Fine Arts, Co. to 40 Wooster Street
Art dealer Colin de Land started Vox Populi on East Sixth Street in 1984, then renamed it American Fine Arts, Co. In 1986 the gallery moved to 40 Wooster Street. There De Land became an early supporter of artists including Andrea Fraser, Cady Noland, Mark Dion and Jessica Stockholder.
Source: Wikipedia
1992
Art Club 2000, a group of Cooper Union graduates, forms with de Land and shows yearly at his gallery
Art Club 2000, a six-member collective of recent Cooper Union graduates, formed in 1992 in collaboration with Colin de Land. For the next seven years it held an annual show at his gallery, American Fine Arts, Co.
Source: Wikipedia

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