Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital
- Architect
- J. William Schickel
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital are a pair of 1883-84 buildings at 135 and 137 Second Avenue in the East Village, built following a donation by philanthropists Oswald Ottendorfer and Anna Ottendorfer to serve the neighborhood's Little Germany enclave. Designed jointly by German-born architect William Schickel in the neo-Italian Renaissance style, the library was the second branch of the New York Free Circulating Library, and the hospital was affiliated with the German Hospital uptown, now Lenox Hill Hospital.
the building
Terracotta-ornamented brick. Both three-story buildings share facades of Philadelphia pressed brick ornamented with terracotta, and the hospital building features terracotta busts of notable medical professionals.
the style
Schickel designed both buildings in the neo-Italian Renaissance style, unifying the library and hospital as a matched pair.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
German-born architect William Schickel designed both the library and hospital buildings jointly.
significance
The buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The hospital, sold in 1906 to the German Polyklinik and renamed Stuyvesant Polyclinic, later housed the women's workspace The Wing until that company ceased operations in 2022.
nearby
- Ottendorfer Library
- Saint Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church
- Hamilton Fish House
- Metropolitan Savings Bank
- St. George's Church
- United States Post Office Cooper Station