92 Fifth Avenue
92 Fifth Avenue, built just a year after Wedgwood House, is of the same residential genre but lacks the earlier building’s air of nautical elegance. The use of colored brick is unusual for mid-century modern and might have been more successful had the dark orange of the first story been the lighter shade of the… Continue reading
Wedgwood House, 69 Fifth Avenue
At 69 Fifth Avenue, Wedgwood House is a classic example of the white-brick white-glove white-shoe buildings that typified upper middle class development in New York City from the late 1950s through the 1960s. Built in 1961 and designed by H.I. Feldman, the structure suggests the nautical appearance of an ocean liner of the time. Setbacks,… Continue reading
Just Off Fifth: Cinema Village
The oldest continuously operated movie theater in Greenwich Village and one of New York’s last classic independent theaters, Cinema Village was built in 1963 in the shell of a historic fire station at 22 East 12th Street. Its cheery blue brick façade and classic neon marquee give a welcome splash of Pop Art color to the… Continue reading
Just off Fifth: Butterfield House
A discreet presence on West 12th Street, Butterfield House has long been celebrated as one of the city’s great postwar apartment buildings. Designed in 1962 by William J. Conklin and James S. Rossant of the architectural firm of Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass, the building consists of two separately conceived structures, a small 4-bay 7-story façade… Continue reading
First Presbyterian Church, 48 Fifth Avenue
A beautiful 1846 design by the English-born architect Joseph C. Wells, First Presbyterian Church (also known as “Old First”) stands at 48 Fifth Avenue. Along with the apartment house across the street at 45 Fifth, the church marks the northern boundary on Fifth Avenue of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Old First makes an interesting… Continue reading