Lafayette Street, SOHO Photos

While Broadway gets the most tourist traffic through SOHO, Lafayette Street one block east has several interesting architectural gems, as it continues up to Copper's Square. Buildings for a block either side of Lafayette are of note as well.

See also: New York City Landmark Squares & Streetscapes, SOHO
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Puck Building (1886 & 93) (295-309 Lafayette St.). Style: Romanesque Revival. Architect: Albert Wagner & Herman Wagner. On National Register.

Facade of Puck Building of NYU.

Puck statue (1885) by Henry Baerer on Puck Building (295 Lafayette St. at Houston).

Entrance facade of Puck Building of NYU.

Robbins & Appleton Building (1880) (1-5 Bond St.).
Style: Second Empire. Architect: Stephen Decatur Hatch. On National Register.

Mansard roofline of Robbins & Appleton Building.

Second Empire entrance to Robbins & Appleton Building.

Schermerhorn Building (1889) (376-380 Lafayette St.) (6 floors). Style: Romanesque Revival. Architect: Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. On National Register.

Facade details of Schermerhorn Building on Lafayette St.

Streetscape along Bond St. from Lafayette with modern infill (25 Bond) among heritage buildings.

Fire Engine Company #33 (1898) (44 Great Jones St.).
Style: Beaux Arts. Architect: Ernest Flagg & Walter B. Chambers. On National Register.

Arched front window of Fire Engine Company #33.

Fire Engine Company #33 & neighboring Great Jones St. heritage buildings.

Heritage commercial building (402 Lafayette St.).

De Vinne Press Building (1885 & 1892) (393-399 Lafayette St.). Style: Romanesque. Architect: Babb, Cook & Willard. On National Register.

Terra cotta details of De Vinne Press Building (393-399 Lafayette St.).

Heritage commercial building (411 Lafayette St.) now used by NYU.

Terra cotta & brick details of 411 Lafayette St.

Heritage commercial buildings (419 & 417 Lafayette St.).

LaGrange Terrace (aka Colonnade Row) (1833) (428-434 Lafayette St.).
Style: Greek Revival. Architect: Alexander Jackson Davis (attrib.). On National Register.

436 Lafayette St. (1871). Architect: Edward Hale Kendall.

Shop entrance (436 Lafayette St.) off Astor Square.

4 Astor Place (7 floors) opposite Cooper Union.

Facade of 4 Astor Place.

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater or Joseph Papp Public Theater (former Astor Library) (1881) (425 Lafayette St.). Architect: Wings: south Alexander Saeltzer (1853); center Griffith Thomas (1869); north Thomas Stent (1881).

Astor Place (2005) (445 Lafayette St.) (21 floors) over 435 Lafayette.
Architect: Ismael Leyva Architects + Gwathmey, Siegel & Assoc.

Ground floor entrance of Astor Place.

Astor Place & Cooper Union Buildings.

Cooper Union (1859) (Cooper Square). Style: Italianate. Architect: Frederick A. Peterson. On National Register. Cooper Union (1859) by Frederick A. Peterson

Cooper Union Building (1859) on Astor Place is oldest iron frame building in USA.

Metropolitan Savings Bank (now Assembly of God) (1867) (6 E. 7th St at Cooper Sq.).
Style: Second Empire. Architect: Carl Pfeiffer. On National Register.

Cooper Square Hotel (2008) (25-33 Cooper Square) (23 floors).
Architect: Perkins Eastman Architects P.C. + Carlos Zapata Studio.

NYU Alumni Hall (33 3rd Ave. at 9th St.) (16 floors).

Astor Place Building (1881) (750 Broadway at Astor Place). Architect: Starkweather & Gibbs.

21 Astor Place (1891) (11 floors).

Wanamaker Store Annex (1907) (14 floors) (Broadway at 4th St.).
Architect: D.H. Burnham & Co.

Heritage town houses on St. Mark's Place.

Details of former wealthy townhouse near Cooper Square (1888) (12 St. Mark's Place).

Daniel LeRoy House (1832) (20 St. Mark's Place).
Style: Federal Baroque. Architect: Thomas E. Davis. On National Register.

Federal Baroque doorway of Daniel LeRoy House.

Art Deco Verizon building front on Second Ave. below Stuyvesant Square.

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