59 East 4th Street

also 61 East 4th Street | East Village | built 1920

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

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1911
Maxwell Cantor designs twin loft buildings for Joseph and Herman Bauman at 59 and 61 East 4th Street
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The twin buildings at 59 and 61 East 4th Street went up in 1911 as lofts over stores, built for Joseph and Herman Bauman to designs by Maxwell A. Cantor. The seven-story Renaissance Revival building of brick, stone and metal has grouped windows between cast-iron columns, patterned brickwork and round-arch windows on the top floor.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1968
The Lower East Side Printshop makes the fourth floor its home for 37 years
From 1968 to 2005 the Lower East Side Printshop, a cooperative printmaking studio, had its home on the fourth floor. The loft building, put up around 1911 to designs by Maxwell A. Cantor, later also became the home of WOW Cafe Theatre, a collectively run space for women and trans performers.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
1984
WOW Cafe Theatre moves into a 1,400-square-foot loft, its home ever since
WOW began in 1980 as an 11-day international women's festival, then took a storefront at 330 East 11th Street. In 1984 it moved into a loft of roughly 1,400 square feet at 59-61 East 4th Street. There it grew into a year-round program of performance by women, lesbians and transgender people, on East 4th Street's Theater Row.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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