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Women's Liberation Center

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Women's Liberation Center
RevelationDirect/Sandbox is located in Manhattan
RevelationDirect/Sandbox
RevelationDirect/Sandbox is located in New York City
RevelationDirect/Sandbox
RevelationDirect/Sandbox is located in New York
RevelationDirect/Sandbox
RevelationDirect/Sandbox is located in the United States
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Location243 West 20th Street
New York, New York 10011
Coordinates40°44′35″N 73°59′56″W / 40.74306°N 73.99889°W / 40.74306; -73.99889
AreaChelsea
Built1866
ArchitectCharles E. Hartshorn
Architectural styleAnglo-Italianate
NRHP reference No.100006509[1]
NYCL No.2633
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 17, 2021
Designated NYCLJune 18, 2019
  • Women's Liberation Center (WLC)
  • Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW)
  • Lesbian Feminist Liberation (LFL)
  • Lesbian Switchboard
  • Lesbian Feminist Liberation

Notes

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  • "faces devoid of make‐up "
  • raise bail for Joan Bird is one of 13 Black Panthers awaiting trial here. She is held in the Women's House of Detention in $100,000 bail
  • "Bitch" (the new women's lib organization that recently staged man‐ogling sessions on Wall Street and midtown) is having a meeting.
  • Aileen Hernandez, president of NOW—the National Organization for Wome
  • “Up From Under” is going to talk to women in housing projects
  • It has no officers

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[3]

  • Audit Interview

00:20 1969, 1972 Ladies Home Journal loft on 22nd street coal burning furnace 2 tons of coal a week in winter 3 floors, 3rd studio 2nd floor office space, meeting 01:43 coal burner low cost incubator lesbian feminist liberation feminist credit union first meeting flexible space, sound but many repairs ideal sharing ideas and politics coordinate services [4]

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  • a group that prepares women for union jobs in the building trades, and has been an apprentice with Electricians Local 3

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  • former firehouse once known as the women’s liberation center
  • still owned by the city

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  • three-story firehous
  • architect, Barbara Neski,
  • Facade retained
  • arched lintels and Federal-style coping
  • old wooden door replaced
  • Horse-drawn fire wagons
  • 1996, had to reconfigure because of teh number of women enrolling
  • Women performed amuch of the work old Chelsea Firehous
  • 2 years ago, $1 million project to restore the building

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  • Women's Anti‐Rape Group
  • dropped rape, for robber charges,
  • picketed serial rapist Richard Carbone

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  • Women's Liberation Center, a $1‐a‐moith “temporary” renter for the last 16 months
  • former firemen's dormitory on the top floor is now a karate and dance studio.
  • inactivated five years ag
  • Victoria Woodhull Marching Band, named for the first woman to run for President of the United States, uses the fire fighters former dormitory as a rehearsal hall. The ensemble is sometimes known as the Women's Liberation Brass Band.
  • Radical Feminists, the Anti‐Rape Group, the Lesbian Lifespace Project and Older Women's Liberation. A buying cooperative called the Food Conspiracy, on the street floor, started as the Lesbian Food Conspiracy but has since opened to other members, including Chelsea neighbors.

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  • Designed by Charles E. Hartshorn in 1866
  • housed the Women’s Liberation Center from 1972 to 1987

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museum [12]

  • Founded in the 1970s
  • Lesbian Feminist Liberation, a group that sought to ensure lesbians were visible and heard at political and pride marches, and
  • Lesbian Switchboard, a volunteer-led counseling hotline
  • closed in 1997.

[13]

Bedford + Bowery [14]

  • Lots

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  • NRHP overview

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  • App brings self-guided LGBTQ history walking tours to NYC. (cover story)
  • includes WLC by NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
  • to highlight that buildings key to marginilized people are often common and re-used because they can't afford an architect for purpose built struture.

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Charles E. Hartshorn, architect [18]

Lesbian [19]

NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project [20]

  • isabled Lesbian Alliance pushed for more events to be held on the first floor to increase accessibility

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  • though, of course, there continues to be separate lesbian organizing, over the past several years many lesbians have shifted from

the women's movement to die newer queer youth movement—anintegrated movement of gay men, lesbians, transsexuals, and bisexuals. The word "queer" is popular because it is inclusive, keeping us from bickering over who belongs. This is attractive to bisexual women for obvious

  • placing their solidarity and alliance to queer men over that of other women.
  • Feminist newspapers, women's centers, and lesbian organizations are disappearing and are being replaced in popularity and support by mixed

lesbian and gay male versions of these things. For example:

  • In New York, when the lesbians who were running the Women's Liberation Center were forced to give up the builing due to the city's financial policies, the lesbian groups meeting there moved to the new Lesbian and Gay Community Center.
  • The Lesbian and Gay Community Center is more than three times the size of the women's center, and unlike the old center, has a paid full-time staff (gay men's greater wealth being a factor, no doubt).

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  • 1979 ft the GLF after a year or so, appalled by their brothers' misogyny,
  • Radicalesbians and Lesbian Feminist Liberation, gay liberation front

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  • Architecture

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  • Purpose

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  • NEW
  • Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters.Reuters How New York's inclusive approach to jobs training is building stronger foundations for the energy transition

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  • NEW, founded in 1978, is a free pre-apprenticeship
  • Income inequality can, male and female industries
  • blue-collar jobs vs pink-collar
  • 7-week day program or 8-week evening/weekend program to prepare women for the skills needed in union apprenticeship programs. All that applicants need are a GED or higher, a TABE test
  • Union contracts pay same, reduce wage discrimination
  • mot low income, many single moms

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History

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center ?

Architecture

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Weekly Lists 2021" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service. December 23, 2021. p. 91. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  2. ^ Bender, Marylin (July 1, 1970). "Women's Lib Headquarters". The New York Times. p. 54. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  3. ^ "Support E.R.A./Rummage Sale". The Villager (Advertisement). New York City: NYC Community Media. July 24, 1975. p. 9. Retrieved June 3, 2025 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  4. ^ Cooper, Eleanor (February 11, 1979). "Interview with Eleanor Cooper of the Women's Liberation Center". More Than Half the World. WBAI-FM (Audio). Interviewed by Pasternak, Judy. New York City: Pacifica Radio. Event occurs at 15:23. Retrieved June 3, 2025 – via University of California, Berkeley Libraries.
  5. ^ "New Credit Union for the Feminist at Heart". Palladium-Times. Oswego, New York. Associated Press. June 9, 1975. p. 7. Retrieved June 3, 2025 – via NYS Historic Newspapers.
  6. ^ Finn, Robin (July 14, 2010). "Where Few Women Go: A Building Site". The New York Times. p. A-26. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  7. ^ Barron, James (May 15, 2019). "A Gay Theater and James Baldwin's N.Y. Apartment May Get Landmark Protection". The New York Times. p. A-19. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  8. ^ "A Renovation at Old Chelsea Firehouse, Where Women Study for Jobs in the Building Trades; For Construction Students, On-the-Job Training". The New York Times. January 21, 1996. p. 9-1. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  9. ^ Johnston, Laurie (April 26, 1973). "Suspect in 6 Rapes Here Is Sentenced for Robbery". The New York Times. p. 47. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  10. ^ Johnston, Laurie (October 28, 1973). "2 Groups Seeking a Firehouse Here". The New York Times. p. 44. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  11. ^ Ricciullli, Valeria (June 18, 2019). "Six of NYC's historic LGBTQ sites are now city landmarks". Curbed New York. Vox Media. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  12. ^ Pitkin, Rachel (November 19, 2020). "Prehistoric and Ahead of Her Time: Sapphasaura at the Museum of Natural History". Gotham Center for New York City History. CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  13. ^ Aviles, Gwen (June 19, 2019). "Six historical New York City LGBTQ sites given landmark designation". NBC News. New York City. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  14. ^ Nowell, Cecilia (December 2019). "A Firehouse Where Pioneering Feminists Have Carried the Torch". Bedford + Bowery. Carter Journalism Institute & New York Magazine. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  15. ^ Herman, Margaret (June 18, 2019). McHale, Kate Lemos (ed.). "Designation Report: Women's Liberation Center" (PDF). NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. Government of New York City. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  16. ^ "Women's Liberation Center". National Register of Historic Places. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  17. ^ Smythe, Laura (January 24, 2016). "App brings self-guided LGBTQ history walking tours to NYC". Philadelphia Gay News. Vol. 43, no. 25. pp. 1–8. ISSN 0742-5155. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  18. ^ Stone, Leilah (October 15, 2019). "Six LGBT historic sites declared NYC landmarks". The Architect's Newspaper. New York City. ISSN 1552-8081. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  19. ^ Cassell, Heather (February 1, 2023). "Community welcomes Lesbian Herstory Archives' Brooklyn landmark". gay city news. New York City: Schneps Media. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  20. ^ Herman, Gabe (May 26, 2019). "Project has led in preserving L.G.B.T. sites". amNY. New York City: Schneps Media. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  21. ^ Corbman, Rachel (2018). "Remediating Disability Activism in the Lesbian Feminist Archive". Cultural Studies Association of Australasia. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 32 (1). Routledge: 18–28. ISSN 1030-4312. Retrieved June 3, 2025 – via EBSCO.
  22. ^ Bower, Tamara (1995). "Bisexual Women, Feminist Politics". In Tucker, Naomi S. (ed.). Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions. New York City: Routledge. pp. 99–107. ISBN 9781315783758. Retrieved June 3, 2025 – via EBSCO.
  23. ^ Hoffman, Amy (April 2, 2020). "Love One Another or Die". Boston Review. Vol. 45, no. 3. pp. 51–66. ISSN 0734-2306. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  24. ^ Harbet, Xandra (June 23, 2017). "10 Notable Sites from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project". Architecture. Untapped New York. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  25. ^ Pitkin, Rachel (June 30, 2021). "Through Diana Davies' Lens: Capturing 1970s Radicalism". Women at the Center. The New York Historical. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  26. ^ Baker, Jill (October 31, 2024). "How New York's inclusive approach to jobs training is building stronger foundations for the energy transition". Ethical Corporation Magazine. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
  27. ^ Gollihue, Krystin (January 24, 2016). "Partnerships For Sustaining Income Equality". Philanthropy Journal. Raleigh, North Carolina: Institute for Nonprofits at North Carolina State University. p. 47. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
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