SoHo Playhouse

 theatre, interesting place

3-story Italianate club building completed in the 1820s. It has a stone base, with brown brick upper floors, three bays wide. The central entrance is set under a rounded arch, deeply recessed behind stone steps, and the building is crowned by a copper modillioned cornice.

This building served as the Greenwich Village clubhouse for Tammany Hall and was named the Huron Club when remodeled in 1905 - the name is carved into the stone above the entrance. The main floor was adaptively reused as a theater in the 1920s, and in the '60s operated as the Village South, home to Playwrights Unit Workshop under the direction of Edward Albee. It is now the home of SoHo Playhouse. The theater has 199 seats, and the Huron Club below is an intimate 55 seat cabaret and bar.

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