Bernard Flynn Lodging House

100 Bowery | Little Italy | built 1916

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1916
George McCabe designs the Bernard Flynn Lodging House at 100 Bowery in 1916
Architect George McCabe designed 100 Bowery in 1916 as a five-story, two-bay lodging house, known as the Bernard Flynn Lodging House. The Bowery Historic District nomination calls it the latest surviving example of Renaissance Revival style on the Bowery, noting its paired windows with segmental arches and, on the top floor, an arcade of four round-arched windows.
“100 Bowery (George McCabe, 1916)... appear to be the latest extant example of the Renaissance Revival style on the Bowery. It was the Bernard Flynn Lodging House…”
Source: National Register nomination
1945
100 Bowery links to its neighbor in 1934 and gets a private club by 1945
Records compiled for the Bowery Historic District nomination show that in 1934 doors were cut through between the Flynn lodging house at 100 Bowery and 98 Bowery next door. By 1945 the second and third floors of number 100 were occupied by a private club.
“Bernard Flynn Lodging house; 1934--lodging house; doors cut through to 98; 1945, 2nd & 3rd = private club.”
Source: National Register nomination

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