Scheffel Hall
- Year
- 1895
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
Scheffel Hall at 190 Third Avenue was built in 1894-1895 and designed by Henry Adams Weber and Hubert Drosser as a beer hall and restaurant, in a Renaissance Revival idiom described as "German-American eclectic." It stood at the edge of Kleindeutschland, Manhattan's old German immigrant quarter, and was named for the German poet and novelist Joseph Viktor von Scheffel.
the building
Modeled on Heidelberg Castle. The building was designed after an early 17th-century structure at Heidelberg Castle, the Friedrichsbau, translating a German Renaissance palace facade into a Manhattan beer hall.
A life of reinvention. Later known as Allaire's, a name still inscribed on the building, it went on to house the German-American Athletic Club, the German-American Rathskeller, Joe King's Rathskeller, and from the 1970s the jazz club Fat Tuesday's and restaurant Tuesday's.
the style
Scheffel Hall is built in a Renaissance Revival style, specifically described as "German-American eclectic Renaissance Revival," reflecting its design after a German Renaissance castle facade rather than an Italian model.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
The building is a New York City designated landmark (LP-01959), designated 6/24/1997. Writer O. Henry used it as the setting for "The Halberdier of the Little Rheinschloss" and wrote stories there.
nearby
- Stuyvesant Apartments
- Saint George's Church
- Consolidated Edison Company Building
- Samuel J. Tilden House
- W New York Union Square
- Daryl Roth Theatre