The Decker Building (also the Union Building ) is a commercial building located at 33 Union Square West in Manhattan , New York City . The structure was completed in 1892 for the Decker Brothers piano company, and designed by John H. Edelmann . From 1968 to 1973, it served as the location of the artist Andy Warhol 's studio, The Factory . The Decker Building was designated a New York City landmark in 1988, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
13-474: Union Building ( s ) may refer to: Union Building (Manhattan) , or Decker Building, New York City, US Union Building (University of Texas at Austin) , US Union Building, Aldershot , UK Union Building, Hong Kong , demolished in 1950, on the site of the present Chater House Union Building, Shanghai , China Union Building, Toronto , Canada Union Buildings , Pretoria, South Africa Union Buildings, on
26-595: A retrospective of photographer Man Ray (1975). When he became the director of the New York Cultural Center in 1972, he helped strengthen the Center's position as one of the liveliest of New York's museums at the time. Amaya used his position at the Cultural Center to house over 150 shows in three years. Amaya also contributed to many galleries, and lectured and acted as a visiting professor at
39-622: A video camera system built to tape his visitors and document the activities around the studio. In 1973, Warhol moved the Factory to 860 Broadway, a short distance away, and created the Warhol Time Capsules while packing up. The building was completely refurbished into apartments by Joseph Pell Lombardi in 1995. In 2015, Dylan's Candy Bar opened a ground-floor storefront in the building, which closed in 2021. Mario Amaya Mario Amaya (October 6, 1933 – June 29, 1986)
52-451: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Union Building (Manhattan) The building is only 33 feet (10 m) wide and 138 feet (42 m) deep on a lot that goes back 150 feet (46 m). It has a right of way to 16th Street from the rear of the building. The style of the building mixes influences from Venice and Islamic traditions. There are numerous terra cotta details on
65-716: The State University of New York at Buffalo . Amaya wrote books on art. Pop As Art: A Survey of the New Super Realism (1965), Art Nouveau (1966), and Tiffany Glass . In the early 1970s, when living in London, Mario Amaya was engaged in research for a proposed biography of Lee Miller (with which she co-operated), but the project came to nothing. Amaya died from complications of AIDS on June 29, 1986, in hospital in Kensington and Chelsea , London, at
78-449: The Factory to look for Warhol, who she felt was taking control of her screenplay away from her. She then shot Warhol three times, seriously wounding him, as well as art critic and curator Mario Amaya . The Factory previously had an open door policy, meaning that anybody could enter. However, following the shooting, Johnson installed a Dutch door and built a wall around the elevator, requiring guests to buzz in. Around 1970, Warhol had
91-561: The campus of the University of Adelaide , Australia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Union Building . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Union_Building&oldid=1063982378 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
104-472: The earlier Decker Building on the same lot, designed by Leopold Eidlitz and built in 1869. On November 25, 1950, 27 year old Abraham Yeager was killed when a one-ton piece of cornice from the Decker Building collapsed onto the sidewalk where Yeager was walking. In 1967, artist Andy Warhol had to move his Factory from East 47th Street after the previous building was torn down. Union Square at
117-469: The façade which remain today. There was a minaret on the roof which disappeared before World War II . The building was valued at $ 285,000 in 1913, after which it was traded to settle debts. The structure was built in 1892 for the Decker Brothers piano company according to designs by the radical anarchist architect John H. Edelmann , working out of the offices of Alfred Zucker . It replaced
130-628: The teaching of the artist Mark Rothko . Mario Anthony Amaya was born in Brooklyn in 1933. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1958, he travelled to England and was from 1962 to 1968 the assistant editor of the Royal Opera House magazine About the House . While still in England he was (from 1965–1968) the (founding) editor of Art and Artists magazine. On June 3, 1968, Amaya
143-462: The time was a rundown neighborhood, but Paul Morrissey had found the loft, in the Decker Building, and Warhol agreed to move there. While Morrissey was stripping wood at the Factory, a young man named Jed Johnson delivered Western Union telegram in 1968. Morrissey hired him on the spot to help out with the refinishing of the space. Johnson subsequently moved in with Warhol and became his longtime partner. On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas visited
SECTION 10
#1732772011232156-580: Was an American art critic , museum director and magazine editor, and (1972–1976) director of the New York Cultural Center and (1976–1979) the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia . He was also (1969–1972) the chief curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the founding editor of London's Art and Artists magazine. He studied Art Nouveau for 35 years, for some of this time under
169-527: Was in Andy Warhol 's office when radical feminist Valerie Solanas opened fire and shot both him and Warhol. Amaya, 34 at the time, was discharged from hospital after receiving treatment of bullet grazes on his back. While in his curatorial positions he mounted major exhibitions of Art Nouveau . Examples include "Realism Now" (1972), "Blacks: USA" (1973), "Women Choose Women" (1973), and "Bouguereau" (organized with Robert Isaacson , 1975); he also arranged
#231768