Ladies' Art Association Building

6 West 14th Street | also 4 West 14th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1910

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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.

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

  1. 1869

    Marcus Goldman moves his family into 4 West 14th Street and opens his brokerage

    Marcus Goldman, a German immigrant who had first settled in Philadelphia, moved his wife Bertha and five children into this house in 1869. The same year he opened Marcus Goldman & Co. as a broker of promissory notes from an office on Pine Street. The family stayed until about 1873; in 1882 he took his son-in-law Samuel Sachs into the firm, creating M. Goldman & Sachs.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1882

    The Ladies' Art Association takes the house for classes and exhibitions

    In 1882 the Ladies' Art Association, which women artists had formed in 1867 for their mutual benefit, acquired 4 West 14th Street for classes and exhibition space. The facade was most likely reworked with grouped windows to bring northern light to the upper floors. Studio tenants in 1887 included Mary Kollock, William de Leftwich Dodge and George Brant Bridgman, who also taught here.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1892

    December 20

    Sister Mary Angelina's silent circle meets here to wish away the world's money

    In 1892 Sister Mary Angelina opened her Silent Unity rooms in the building. She followed the Olombia Commonwealth, which sought the conversion of sinners and the end of money. The Evening World described ten members sitting in silence around a table on December 20, focusing their thoughts on removing Mammon from the world.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1904

    December 2

    A burglar falls through an interior skylight and leaves $5,000 in furs behind

    On the night of December 2, 1904, janitor James Cocker heard noises on the third floor and then the crash of glass. With a policeman he found an intruder who had gone through an interior skylight and broken his leg. The Times said the burglar left behind two jimmies and a bundle of furs worth $5,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1934

    Hearn's department store leases the building as an annex

    Hearn's, then one of the largest department stores in the city, leased the building in 1934 as extra space; the store itself stood at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 14th Street. The two buildings were joined internally in 1945. Later ground-floor tenants included an electronics shop in the 1960s and a bridal shop in the 1980s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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