10 Chatham Square
Chinatown | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1883
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association takes shape at 10 Chatham Square
The Chung Wah Gong Shaw, a Chinese public assembly hall, was founded in 1883 at 10 Chatham Square, the address of today's building on this lot. It grew into the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, set up to help the Chinese who settled in the area, and it came to serve as a parallel government for Chinatown, drawing in some 60 merchant, cultural and community groups. In 1887 its members bought a building at 16 Mott Street, and the association's present Mott Street headquarters dates from 1959.
Source: National Register nomination
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