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CHRISTOPHER STREET at GREENWICH AVENUE. The Jefferson Market Library (ex-Courthouse) is not often photographed from this angle, as most photographers tend to catch it from 6th Avenue. The building was constructed beginning in 1874 and was inspired by Ludwig II's Bavarian castle, Neuschwanstein. Ludwig built three magnificent castles; he later went insane and was found drowned.

The Courthouse replaced another prominent tower, the Jefferon Market fire lookout. Such towers were in place all over the city before the days of telegraphs and fire alarms: watchers would be positioned on the towers and would run to alert firefighters when a blaze broke out. Pittsburgh railroad heir Harry Thaw was tried in the murder of architect Stanford White in this courthouse.

Christopher Street and Greenwich Avenue are two of the oldest roads in Greenwich Village and date to the colonial period, when Christopher Street was called Skinner Road and Greenwich Avenue was Monument Lane.

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