His exact address was unknown until September 1969’s Doctor Strange #182, when writer-editor Roy Thomas showed a telegram being delivered to one Dr.
Strange’s first appearance in comics came in Strange Tales #110, dated April 1963, and creators Stan Lee and Greenwich Village resident Steve Ditko placed him in the heart of the neighborhood. It wasn’t until the 1960s that 177 Bleecker became associated with superheroes and the mystic arts. Finkle’s design was typical of Victorian-era tenements in the South Village: old-law “dumbbell” configurations (as seen from above), with very small indentations in the center to allow a minimum of light and air into some interior rooms.ġ77 Bleecker in the 1940s (left) and today Finkle, a New Orleans-born architect whose work can also be seen in other Manhattan buildings (nearby at 34 and 36 East 4th Street, 7 East 3rd Street, and 58 East 4th Street on the Upper West Side, a row of Queen Anne houses on West 78th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues).
177 Bleecker Street is no massive townhouse on a corner, but instead one of four handsome red brick tenements between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets, each five stories tall with retail on the ground floor (current occupant of 177’s ground floor is a not-so-magical bodega.) Included in both the local and national South Village Historic Districts, 171-177 Bleecker Street was built in 1887 for an owner named Isidor S. And while there’s no 177A on Bleecker in our New York City, there is indeed a very real building today at 177 Bleecker that ties into the history of the Sorcerer Supreme. Of course, that means you’re also walking through a fictional world, one populated by the heroes and villains of Marvel Comics - in print, and more recently the Marvel Cinematic Universe on screen. The Sanctum Sanctorum in its first appearance (upper left), a more modern version, and from the 2016 film, Dr.
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