15 Bleecker Street

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3-story Art-Deco residential building originally completed in about 1825 as a 2-story house in the Federal style. The building was acquired in 1832 by George Wheeler, who added the third story in 1869-70. Wheeler occupied the adjacent building at 13 Bleecker Street from 1832 through at least 1851, and retained ownership of both buildings until 1875. By 1905, the building had been converted from a dwelling to manufacturing lofts, and was soon occupied by the fur industry.

In 1924, the building was purchased by Henry Appel, whose fur business occupied the building into the 1930s. In 1928, Appel and his partner Samuel Benjamin hired architect Nathan Langer to design a new Art Deco-style facade and a rear extension. In the 1960s, loft dwellers began to move into the building's vacant upper floors. It is clad in red brick, four bays wide, with metal and glass show windows and transoms on the ground floor, with two recessed entries. The upper floors have decorative brickwork and paneling, with pale green-painted metal framing around window groups. The facade is topped by a stepped brick roof parapet. The ground floor is occupied by INA vintage/consignment store.