The Peter Warren

 apartment building, 1957_construction

11-story residential building completed in 1957. Designed by H.I. Feldman, it is clad in red brick, except for the 1st-floor which is clad in green mosaic tile. The central portion, occupying more than one-half the width of the building, is projected forward with diagonal corners and corner windows. The top two floors are set back even farther at the corners, and the windows throughout are in groups of two and five. Random ashlar stone planter beds flank the entry and extend out to the building line. This apartment building was named for Admiral Peter Warren, an Irish-born Royal Navy captain whose captures made him a rich man and the owner of much of what is now Greenwich Village.

Earlier on this site was Tenth Street Studio Building, one of the first American structures by Richard Morris Hunt and home to some of Americans most celebrated artists. It was a 3-story Romanesque-revival residential building originally completed in 1858. In 1887 the building was altered like art studios building for James Boorman Johnston, brother of John Taylor Johnston, first President of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1879 artist William Merritt Chase moved in. Later his studio was taken over by sculptor Stirling Calder. Studio doors were thrown open and the public was invited to stroll through the building inspecting the paintings and sculptures. Twice a year formal exhibitions were staged in the grand, glass-domed gallery.

Lebanese and American artist, poet, writer, and philosopher Khalil Gibran lived here from 1910 to his death in 1931. His series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose and his book "The Prophet "were written here in 1923. In 1955 the old building was demolished.

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