Atlantic Theater (former St. Peter's Parish House) (New York City, New York)

 theatre, interesting place

Former Victorian-Gothic-style parish house completed in 1871 for St. Peter's Church. By contrast with its earlier neighbors, the Church and the Rectory to the west, the red brick Parish Hall is an example of a fashionable Victorian prototype with its pointed windows, steep roof and modest portals. A small 3-story tower is attached to the east corner of the facade. The base of the tower has an entrance with wooden double-doors under a pointed-arch lintel. The tower narrows slightly at each floor. The 2nd floor has a pointed-arch window, and the 3rd has a window with three symmetrical, curved sides on both the north- and west-facing elevations. A flagpole projects below the front window, and the tower is capped by a crenelated stone cornice.

To the west of the tower the main body of the building has a tripartite set of slender but tall pointed-arch windows, the center one doubled. Like the openings on the lower two floors of the tower, they are topped by curved lintels. The roof line is gabled, edge in brick corbels and a dentiled stone band. There is a 1-story, slightly-recessed wing at the west end, framed by buttresses, with a pointed-arch window at the front, and four pairs of pointed-arch windows extending back along the west wall.

The building is now adaptively reused as the Atlantic Theater Company, founded in 1985 by David Mamet and William H. Macy, and 30 of their acting students from New York University. The 199-seat theater was renovated in 2013 by The Brooklyn Studio.

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