115 MacDougal Street - Players Theatre (New York City, New York) | apartment building

 theatre, apartment building

3-story brownstone residential building completed in 1907. Designed by Sommerfeld & Steckler as a stable, it is clad in orange-yellow brick. The first floor originally had a row of tall, segmental-arched windows, 11 bays wide, but these have been bricked-in. The rounded brown brick lintels still remain, however, and are repeated above the shorter windows of the 2nd floor. Most of the 3rd-floor windows have lost their brick lintels, but brown stone sills still line each window. The 3-bay facade facing MacDougal also has brown brick quoins at the edges. The building is now occupied by Cafe Wha? Village Landmark - a long-running Greenwich Village club where Bob Dylan had his first NYC gig, and Jimi Hendrix gained fame - and the Players Theatre.