542 LaGuardia Place

Greenwich Village | built 1897

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  1. 1897

    Julius Franke designs a six-story store and loft building for Charles H. Taylor

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    Architect Julius Franke drew up plans for a six-story brick store-and-loft building here in 1897, filed as New Building application 129 for the owner, Charles H. Taylor. The Renaissance Revival facade combines rusticated brick piers, cast-iron piers at the second story and terra-cotta trim. The city's landmark survey notes that the lot, historically tax lot 23, now holds condominium units.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1962

    The Mannhardt Theater Foundation stages productions in its school loft here

    Renata Mannhardt, a German actress, founded the Mannhardt Theater Foundation as a school for theater, and between 1962 and 1968 some of its productions were staged in the school's loft here. The landmark designation report counts it among the small theaters of the South Village historic district, alongside Stage 9 at 96 West Houston Street.

    “…the Mannhardt Theater Foundation, a theater school founded by the German actress, Renata (Renate) Mannhardt, which staged some of its productions in the school's loft at 542 LaGuardia Place in 1962-68…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1990

    Artist Keith Haring lives in his last apartment in this building

    The artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) had his last apartment at 542 LaGuardia Place, according to the city's South Village landmark report. The report names him among the LGBT cultural figures who lived in the historic district, together with the playwright Paul Rudnick, who in the 1990s occupied the former West 4th Street apartment of the actor John Barrymore.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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