Center for Architecture
534 LaGuardia Place | also 536 LaGuardia Place | Greenwich Village | built 1911
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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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- 1911
A wine importer and bottler, Pessagno & Montresor, occupies the 1911 loft building at 534 LaGuardia Place
The eight-story loft went up in 1911 under permit NB 632-1911, with Charles J. Passagno and Sylvester Montresor as original owners. Early in the twentieth century it was occupied by Pessagno & Montresor, a wine importing and bottling firm. The building is faced in brick and granite, with rusticated granite piers at the ground-floor corners and corner pavilions that rise above the cornice line.
“Occupied in the early 20th century by Pessagno & Montresor, a wine importer and bottler.”
- 1911
Anthony Vendrasco, an Italian-born architect, designs the Industrial Neo-Classical loft building
Anthony Vendrasco had immigrated from Italy in 1891 and practiced in New York until 1921. Besides this loft he designed the first rectory for Our Lady of Pompeii Church, at 210 Bleecker Street, which no longer stands, and a bakery with living quarters for the Zampieri brothers at 17 Cornelia Street.
“…original rectory of Our Lady of Pompeii Church at 210 Bleecker Street (demolished) and the former bakery and dwelling for the Zampieri Bros. at 17 Cornelia Street…”
- 2003
Andrew Berman's Center for Architecture opens with a geothermal system
Architect Andrew Berman designed the Center for Architecture, which opened to the public in October 2003. That summer, crews spent about three weeks drilling two geothermal wells, each 1,260 feet deep, beneath the sidewalk. The system heats and cools the 12,000-square-foot facility, which is run by the American Institute of Architects' New York Chapter.
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