55 Mercer Street

SoHo | built 1872

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1872

    Griffith Thomas finishes a five-story cast-iron store at 55 Mercer Street

    Griffith Thomas's cast-iron building at 55 Mercer Street was completed in 1872 and stands five floors high. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes its three-bay front as a blend of Italianate balustrades, neo-Grec column capitals and a Second Empire broken pediment over a heavy bracketed cornice, with the construction year, 1872, set into the pediment area.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1990

    Leslie Wayne has her first New York solo show at the 55 Mercer Street Gallery

    The 55 Mercer Street Gallery was an artist-run cooperative, and in 1990 it gave the painter Leslie Wayne her first solo exhibition in New York. She had a second solo show there in 1992, and that year she joined the Jack Shainman Gallery, which gave her a solo show in 1993. Her biography calls the space one of the city's leading artist-run cooperatives.

    “Wayne had her first two New York City solo shows at 55 Mercer Street Gallery in 1990 and 1992.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2006

    The Culture Project buys the lease of the Manhattan Ensemble Theatre at 55 Mercer Street

    The Manhattan Ensemble Theatre was a nonprofit company founded in 1999 by David Fishelson, and it played in a 140-seat theatre at 55 Mercer Street at Broome Street. After its hit Golda's Balcony moved to Broadway in 2003 and then went on tour, Fishelson looked for someone to take over the 10 years left on the lease. In 2006 the downtown nonprofit Culture Project bought it, and the company left in early 2007.

    “In 2006, the Culture Project, a 10 year-old downtown nonprofit theater at the time, bought the remaining years on the 55 Mercer Street theater's lease.”

    Source: Wikipedia

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