100 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1893

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

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1841
A smaller house stands on this lot from about 1841 until the early 1890s
A smaller house stood here from about 1841, long before the present tenement. Sophia Bissert bought the property in 1891, and the building that stands today went up two years later. This was an earlier building on the site.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1893
Sophia Bissert has Jobst Hoffmann build a Romanesque Revival tenement here
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Sophia Bissert bought the lot in 1891 and two years later had architect Jobst Hoffmann put up this five-story tenement. It has cast-iron columns on stone bases flanking the entrance, round-arched top-story windows with terra-cotta pediments and ornamented terra-cotta piers. The facade keeps a stone entrance frame and a galvanized-iron cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2012
The Landmarks Commission cites this tenement as a model of the rare Romanesque Revival style
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In its report for the 2012 East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, the commission singles out this Jobst Hoffmann tenement. It said the building shows the compact massing of the Romanesque Revival, especially in its rounded brick edges and smooth facade. The style was never as popular for tenements as the Queen Anne or Renaissance Revival, and only a handful survive in the district.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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