500 LaGuardia Place

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

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1870
William Campbell has a five-story Italianate tenement built at 500 LaGuardia Place
Samuel Lynch designed this five-story brick tenement in 1870 for the owner William Campbell, as one of a pair with the neighboring building at 498. Its windows have segmental arches with cast-iron lintels and bracketed sills, and its cornice has modillions. A second building stands behind it on the lot, hidden from the street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1968
Guitar maker Dan Armstrong moves his shop to 500 LaGuardia Place
After the building that held his West 48th Street guitar repair shop was razed in 1968, Dan Armstrong moved the business here and renamed it Dan Armstrong Guitars. That year the Ampeg company hired him as a consultant, and he designed guitars and basses with clear Plexiglas bodies. Their swappable pickups came from Bill Lawrence, who worked alongside Armstrong in the Greenwich Village shop and eventually took it over.
Source: Wikipedia

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