Tenth Street Studio Building

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The Tenth Street Studio Building was a pioneering 19th-century New York City artists’ studio complex that became a central hub of the American art world.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic community hub
artists' studio building
architect Richard Morris Hunt
architecturalStyle Italianate
Victorian
associatedMovement American landscape painting
Hudson River School
associatedWith American art dealers
New York art market
cityDistrict Greenwich Village Historic District (later designation of area)
country United States
culturalRole gathering place for leading American artists of the 19th century
symbol of professionalization of American artists
demolished 1956
designedFor professional artists
era 19th-century American art
function art exhibition space
artists' studios
social gathering place for artists and patrons
hasPart central exhibition gallery
individual artists' studios
heritageStatus demolished historic building
historicalPeriod Gilded Age
inception 1857
influenced later purpose-built artists' studio buildings in the United States
locatedIn Greenwich Village
Manhattan
New York City
material brick
notableResident Albert Bierstadt
Eastman Johnson
Frederic Edwin Church
Jervis McEntee
John La Farge
Sanford Robinson Gifford
William Merritt Chase
Winslow Homer
opened 1858
owner various private owners
precededBy informal loft and home studios in New York City
replacedBy later studio buildings and commercial galleries in Midtown Manhattan
roofType mansard roof
significance major center of the 19th-century American art world
pioneering purpose-built artists' studio complex in the United States
streetAddress 51 West 10th Street
usedFor art exhibitions
artists' living and working spaces

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
The Heart of the Andes
exhibitedAt

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