The Cambridge
43 7th Avenue | also 175 West 13th Street, 45 7th Avenue, 47 7th Avenue | West Village | built 1963
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1951
Stuart Davis paints "Owh! In San Pao" in a building that stood on this site
The painter Stuart Davis lived and worked in a building that once stood where The Cambridge is now, at Seventh Avenue and West 13th Street. In 1951 he made "Owh! In San Pao" there. He had meant it for the Sao Paulo Biennial, but the organizers turned it down, so he renamed the picture with a joke. A Village Preservation post notes the plaque by the Cambridge entrance marking his time here.
Source: Village Preservation
- 1963
A twenty-story apartment tower called The Cambridge rises at the Seventh Avenue corner
The Cambridge was built in 1962-63 on the northeast corner of Seventh Avenue and West 13th Street, with stores along the avenue and its entrance on the side street. Its windows vary from singles to triples and corners, and its upper floors step back. The 1969 Landmarks Preservation Commission report criticized it for ignoring the scale and quality of its neighbors on the side street.
“…this corner apartment house of brick with metal sash dominates and defies its surroundings... built in 1962-63 and is called "The Cambridge.”
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