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18-516: The two-story mansion was built circa 1830 for George H. Whyett. It was designed in the Federal architectural style . It was expanded in 1855. Prior to the war, Jefferson Davis visited the house as a guest. During the American Civil War , the mansion was used as headquartered by Union General Ulysses S. Grant , followed by Confederate General Leonidas Polk . After the war, Davis returned to

36-517: A home for "fallen women". 21 Bleecker Street's entrance now bears the lettering "Florence Night Mission", described by The New York Times in 1883 as "a row of houses of the lowest character". The National Florence Crittenton Mission was an organization established in 1883 by Charles N. Crittenton . It attempted to reform prostitutes and unwed pregnant women through the creation of establishments where they were to live and learn skills. The building at 58 Bleecker Street (formerly 64 Bleecker Street)

54-444: A neighborhood popular today for music venues and comedy as well as an important center of LGBT history and culture and bohemian tradition . The street is named after the family name of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker , a banker, the father of Anthony Bleecker , a 19th-century writer, through whose family farm the street once ran. Bleecker Street connects Abingdon Square (the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Hudson Street ) in

72-527: Is served by the 4 , ​ 6 , <6> ​, B , ​ D , ​ F , <F> , and ​ M trains at Bleecker Street/Broadway–Lafayette Street station. The 1 and ​ 2 trains serve the Christopher Street–Sheridan Square station one block north of Bleecker Street. No bus route runs on Bleecker Street. The following routes intersect with it: Traffic on

90-553: The American colonies ' new motifs of neoclassical architecture as it was epitomized in Britain by Robert Adam , who published his designs in 1792. American Federal architecture typically uses plain surfaces with attenuated detail, usually isolated in panels, tablets, and friezes . It also had a flatter, smoother façade and rarely used pilasters . It was most influenced by the interpretation of ancient Roman architecture , fashionable after

108-632: The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 in New York. The historic eastern part of Bleecker Street in New York, between Broadway and the Bowery , is home to Federal-style row houses at 7 to 13 and 21 to 25 Bleecker Street . The classicizing style of Federal architecture can especially be seen in the quintessential New England meeting house, with their lofty and complex towers by architects such as Lavius Fillmore and Asher Benjamin . This American neoclassical high style

126-681: The Salem Maritime National Historic Site , consisting of 12 historic structures and about 9 acres (4 ha) of land along the waterfront. Modern reassessment of the American architecture of the Federal period began with Fiske Kimball . Bleecker Street Bleecker Street is an east–west street in Lower Manhattan , New York City . It is most famous today as a Greenwich Village nightclub district . The street connects

144-606: The West Village , to the Bowery in the East Village and NoHo . Bleecker Street was named by and after the Bleecker family because the street ran through the family's farm. In 1808, Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and his wife deeded to the city a major portion of the land on which Bleecker Street sits. Originally Bleecker Street extended from Bowery to Broadway, along the north side of

162-743: The White House , are among the most prominent examples of buildings constructed in Federal style. Federal style is also used in association with furniture design in the United States of the same time period. The style broadly corresponds to the classicism of Biedermeier style in the German -speaking lands, Regency architecture in Britain, and the French Empire style . It may also be termed Adamesque architecture . The White House and Monticello were setting stones for what Federal architecture has become. In

180-475: The classical architecture built in the United States following the American Revolution between c.   1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was influenced heavily by the works of Andrea Palladio with several innovations on Palladian architecture by Thomas Jefferson and his contemporaries. Jefferson's Monticello estate and several federal government buildings, including

198-454: The Bleecker farm, later as far west as Sixth Avenue . In 1829 it was joined with Herring Street, extending Bleecker Street north-northwest to Abingdon Square. LeRoy Place is the former name of a block of Bleecker Street between Mercer and Greene Streets. This was where the first palatial "winged residences" were built. The effect was accomplished by making the central houses taller and closer to

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216-456: The early United States, the founding generation consciously chose to associate the nation with the ancient democracies of Greece and the republican values of Rome . Grecian aspirations informed the Greek Revival , lasting into the 1850s. Using Roman architectural vocabulary, the Federal style applied to the balanced and symmetrical version of Georgian architecture that had been practiced in

234-585: The house as a guest. Later, President Andrew Johnson was also a guest. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since February 11, 1971. This article about a property in Shelby County, Tennessee on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Federal architecture Federal-style architecture is the name for

252-543: The street is one-way, going southeast. In early December 2007, a bicycle lane was marked on the street. In addition, there are several Federal architecture -style row houses at 7 to 13 and 21 to 25 Bleecker Street on easternmost block of Bleecker Street, in NoHo between Lafayette Street and the Bowery. 21 and 29 Bleecker Street were also once the home of the National Florence Crittenton Mission , providing

270-418: The street, while the other houses on the side were set back. The central buildings also had bigger, raised entrances and lantern-like roof projections. The houses were built by Isaac A. Pearson, on both sides of Bleecker Street. To set his project apart from the rest of the area, Pearson convinced the city to rename this block of the street after the prominent international trader Jacob LeRoy. Bleecker Street

288-452: The unearthing of Pompeii and Herculaneum . The bald eagle was a common symbol used in this style, with the ellipse a frequent architectural motif. The classicizing manner of constructions and town planning undertaken by the federal government was expressed in early federal projects of lighthouses, harbor buildings, universities, and hospitals. It can be seen in the rationalizing, urbanistic layout of L'Enfant Plan of Washington and in

306-568: Was built in 1823 for James Roosevelt , great-grandfather of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt . It was there that Elizabeth Blackwell , America's first female physician, established a clinic with her sister Emily. Across the street from the former home of the National Florence Crittenton Mission is both the headquarters of Planned Parenthood , and the Catholic Sheen Center, immediately adjacent to it. Bleecker Street now features

324-518: Was the idiom of America's first professional architects, such as Charles Bulfinch and Minard Lafever . Robert Adam and James Adam were leading influences through their books. In Salem, Massachusetts , there are numerous examples of American colonial architecture and Federal architecture in two historic districts: Chestnut Street District , which is part of the Samuel McIntire Historic District containing 407 buildings, and

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