Tenth Street Studio Building

The Tenth Street Studio Building, constructed in New York City in 1857, was the first modern facility designed solely to serve the needs of artists.

[1] Situated at 51 West 10th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, the building was commissioned by James Boorman Johnston[notes 1] and designed by Richard Morris Hunt.

Its innovative design soon represented a national architectural prototype,[citation needed] and featured a domed central gallery, from which interconnected rooms radiated.

In its initial years, Winslow Homer took a studio there,[2] as did Edward Lamson Henry, and many of the artists of the Hudson River School, including Martin Johnson Heade and Albert Bierstadt.

Henry Becket, writing in the New York Post newspaper on March 2, 1942, noted that "The artists meet in a cellar that they call The Bomb Shelter at 51 West 10th Street."