Brown Building

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The Brown Building is a historic structure in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village best known as the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a tragedy that led to major reforms in workplace safety and labor laws.

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instanceOf academic building
building
architect John Woolley NERFINISHED
architecturalStyle Neo-Renaissance
associatedWith International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union NERFINISHED
labor law reforms
workplace safety reforms
cityBorough Borough of Manhattan NERFINISHED
completedIn 1900
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designated National Historic Landmark
New York City Landmark NERFINISHED
factoryTenant Triangle Waist Company NERFINISHED
fireDate March 25, 1911
fireDeaths 146
fireVictims garment workers
floorUse1911 garment manufacturing on upper floors
functionDuring1911Fire garment factory building
hasElevators yes
hasEvent Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire NERFINISHED
hasFireEscapes yes
houses NYU biology laboratories
NYU chemistry laboratories NERFINISHED
knownFor Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire NERFINISHED
listedOn National Register of Historic Places
locatedIn Greenwich Village NERFINISHED
Manhattan
New York City
New York State NERFINISHED
material brick
steel-frame
memorializedBy annual commemorations of Triangle fire
plaques on exterior
near Washington Square Park NERFINISHED
nhlDesignationYear 1991
nrhpType National Historic Landmark NERFINISHED
numberOfStories 10
nycLandmarkDesignationYear 2003
originalName Asch Building NERFINISHED
owner New York University NERFINISHED
partOf New York University campus NERFINISHED
renamedAfter Fred M. Brown NERFINISHED
renamedIn 1929
streetAddress 23–29 Washington Place NERFINISHED
use classrooms
educational
laboratory

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