Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart

Manhattan, United States

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The Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart, located on East 13th Street in Manhattan's East Village, is a Beaux-Arts structure designed by the firm Jardine, Kent & Jardine and completed in 1903–04. Originally constructed as an auction venue for the city's elite, including the Vanderbilts and Delanos, the mart held sales every Tuesday and Friday, specializing in ribbon-winning horses, polo ponies, hunters, and thoroughbreds alongside coaching stock. Following the decline of horse transportation after World War I, the building was repurposed as a women's assembly-line training center during World War II. From 1978 to 2005, artist Frank Stella owned and used the building as his studio, overseeing restoration of its facade. After a threatened demolition in 2006, preservation advocates, including the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, successfully halted the project and secured the building's listing on the State Register of Historic Places in 2007.