Then in 1890 his brother Charles had a painting room built for the artist behind the main room on the studio's ground floor.
Sitting in his basement, Mr. Martinez said he was happy in his work space, but nonetheless he hopes someday to have a "really posh studio" above ground.
In Timothy Greenfield-Sanders's studio, the ground floor in a former rectory on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, famous artists, novelists, actors and politicians come to be photographed.
William Bennett, a rock guitarist and entrepreneur whose studio near ground zero provided a haven to frustrated performers with day jobs on Wall Street who dreamed of playing live rock and roll, died on Oct. 7 at Bellevue Hospital Center.
More than $1.2 million Stamford $2.9 million3366 Ocean Drive West Number of bedrooms: 3 Number of full bathrooms: 5 Number of half bathrooms: 2 Weeks on market: 31 weeks 90-year-old stucco-sided center-hall colonial; library, 3 fireplaces, finished basement, guest studio, in-ground pool, 3-car garage, 1.1-acre lot; taxes $18,787; listed at $2.995 million.
Known as Manogi, he owned the Sona Shoppe, a photography studio on ground floor of the mall.
The company would bring all its Manhattan-based brands -- including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, The New York Post and MySpace -- under one roof, with studios at ground level.
Other buildings of note are Fort Houston (500 Houston Street) and Chestnut Square, a 100-year-old brick warehouse that was formerly a hosiery mill and now is home to many smaller galleries and studios, including Ground Floor Gallery.
Recording sessions for the album took place at Brooklyn Recording and Breeding Grounds Studio in Brooklyn, New York; Lalabelle Music and Lamont Caldwell's Bedroom in Clifton, New Jersey; Pine Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Prime Rib Productions and The Krusty Lab in Los Angeles, California.
