Article: New York's Tenth Street Studio building.

Just before the Civil War, the entrepreneur James B. Johnston (1822-1887) commissioned the beaux-arts architect Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) to design a building on Tenth Street in New York City for the sole purpose of housing artists' studios (some with living quarters) as well as a communal space for exhibitions. This concept was entirely new to the city's artistic community, and when the building was finished in January 1858, it quickly achieved prominence among a wide circle of artists, architects, designers, art dealers, collectors, and critics. An exhibition that chronicles the rise of the Tenth Street Studio Building and its significant impact on the art world ...

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