Bouwerie Lane Theatre

54 Bond Street | also 330 Bowery | NoHo | built 1874

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1874
The Atlantic Savings Bank moves into Henry Engelbert's cast-iron building as the Bond Street Savings Bank
Architect Henry Engelbert designs the French Second Empire building on a long, narrow lot at Bond Street and the Bowery, treating both facades alike and leaving off the usual mansard roof. The cast iron is made to look like stone, with coupled columns on the Bond Street side and a bracketed cornice topped with triangular pediments. The Atlantic Savings Bank moves in and takes the name Bond Street Savings Bank.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1918
Anti-German sentiment prompts a name change to Commercial Exchange Bank
The German Exchange Bank, which had taken over 330 Bowery, renames itself the Commercial Exchange Bank in 1918. The change comes during the First World War, when anything German-sounding drew hostility.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1963
Honey Waldman converts the former bank into the Bouwerie Lane Theatre
After decades of neglect, producer Honey Waldman turns the cast-iron bank building into an off-Broadway theater, whose first production is The Immoralist with Frank Langella. The Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre later makes the space its home from 1974 to 2006.
Source: Wikipedia

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