Rodin Studios

900 7th Avenue | also 200 West 57th Street, 894 7th Avenue | Midtown | built 1917

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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. 1917

    Three painters organize an artists' cooperative to build the Rodin Studios

    In 1916 painters Lawton S. Parker, John Fry and Georgia Timkey Fry conceived a studio-residence for prosperous artists, named for Auguste Rodin. Cass Gilbert designed it for 200 West 57th Street, and it was completed in 1917, using multicolored brick, terra cotta and iron in Gothic motifs. The large studios faced north onto 57th Street for even light, and each measured roughly 22 to 25 feet wide.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1926

    Novelist Theodore Dreiser moves into the Rodin Studios

    Novelist Theodore Dreiser rented an apartment at the Rodin Studios from 1926 to 1931. By then the building had already drawn a mix of tenants since its 1917 opening, including modernist painter Boris Anisfeld and Ethel Traphagen Leigh, founder of the Traphagen School of Fashion.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1988

    February 16

    The city designates Rodin Studios a landmark

    The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Rodin Studios a city landmark on February 16, 1988, protecting Cass Gilbert's terra-cotta Gothic facade. The building had already left its original purpose behind: the artists' cooperative that built it sold the property at auction for $800,500 in 1942, and it shifted to office use by the 1960s.

    Source: Wikipedia

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