Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
71 Grand Street | also 28 Wooster Street | SoHo | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1879
Mortimer C. Merritt builds a neo-Grec cast-iron store at 73 Grand Street and adds the corner in 1888
Architect Mortimer C. Merritt designed both the three-bay section at 73 Grand Street, built in 1879, and the corner section added in 1888, when alteration records suggest he gave the older part a new iron facade. Together with 28-30 Wooster Street, the four-story building forms a corner facade in the neo-Grec manner, with fluted Corinthian columns dividing plate-glass show windows at street level.
“Although the three-bay section of the building, which is numbered No. 73 Grand, was built in 1879, the corner section was not added until 1888.”
- 2006
Leslie-Lohman moves its gallery from the Prince Street basement to a new home at 26 Wooster Street
The basement gallery at 127B Prince Street was the first home of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation. Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman ran it and lived close by, in a loft building at 131 Prince Street. That gallery remained the organization's main location until 2006, when it relocated to a ground-floor space at 26 Wooster Street. The Prince Street space reopened in 2012 as the museum's project space.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
- 2011
New York's Board of Regents grants the foundation museum status
The New York State Board of Regents gave the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation museum status in 2011, and the foundation was formally accredited as a museum in 2016. It collects and shows visual art by LGBTQ artists and on LGBTQ themes, and by 2019 it described itself as the only museum in the world devoted to artwork documenting the LGBTQ experience.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2013
The museum starts sending its exhibitions abroad, with a Sascha Schneider show for Berlin's Schwules Museum
Leslie-Lohman began to travel its exhibitions in 2013, when its Sascha Schneider show went to the Schwules Museum in Berlin. Its exhibition Classical Nude: The Making of Queer History was previewed that summer, in 2014, in West Hollywood at the gallery of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The museum's own exhibitions are organized by guest curators whose proposals are reviewed by the director and an exhibition committee.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
The Wooster Street museum closes for an expansion that lasts until March 2017
The museum shut its Wooster Street space in October 2016 for an expansion and renovation, the same year it was formally accredited as a museum. It reopened in March 2017. Alongside the main space, it ran a window gallery on Wooster Street and, for weekend shows and drawing workshops, the Prince Street project space.
“The museum was closed for an expansion between October 2016 and March 2017.”
Source: Wikipedia
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- Leslie-Lohman Museum of ArtWikipedia
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