101 Bowery (New World Hotel)

101 Bowery | Chinatown | built 1900

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1875

    William Jose builds 101 Bowery in an ornate Neo Grec style with a two-story iron front

    The five-story building at 101 Bowery went up in 1875 to a design by William Jose. Its three-bay stone front has quoins, deeply incised window hoods and a cast-iron storefront across the first two floors. The National Register nomination for the Bowery Historic District ranks it among the most elaborate Neo Grec facades on the street, one that draws heavily on the Italianate; the cornice is a simpler later replacement.

    “One of the most elaborate versions of the Neo Grec, drawing heavily on the Italianate, is 101 Bowery (William Jose, 1875)…”

    Source: National Register nomination

  2. 1881

    Worth's Museum shows what it says is Guiteau's head and admits children who bring a live mouse

    In 1881, 101 Bowery became the site of Worth's Museum and Congress of Living and Intimate Curiosities, one of the dime museums that crowded the street. Among its attractions was what it claimed was the preserved head of Charles Guiteau, the man who shot President Garfield. The museum also kept 54 rattlesnakes, and a child who arrived with a live mouse to feed them got in free. A 2016 marker by the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors tells the story.

    Source: hmdb.org

  3. 1881

    E. M. Worth buys a Newfoundland giant squid for his Bowery museum

    In November 1881 a giant squid found floating dead near Portugal Cove, Newfoundland, was shipped on ice by steamer to New York. E. M. Worth, whose museum stood at 101 Bowery, bought and preserved it. The city's chief of public works measured the iced specimen, and the zoologist A. E. Verrill described it. This was an earlier building than today's, which dates from about 1900.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1912

    Trunk maker A. Lercher moves from 101 Bowery to Broome Street after a fire

    A. Lercher, a leather trunk manufacturer, ran a factory at 101 Bowery. In July 1912 the trade paper Luggage and Leather Goods reported that the factory had recently been damaged by fire and that Lercher had moved to 435 Broome Street. There he took the whole building, with the ground floor as office and salesroom, and stayed into the 1920s.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1938

    After the museum years, 101 Bowery becomes a lodging house and later passes to the M&D Hotel Company

    The Bowery Historic District nomination traces 101 Bowery from Worth's museum to use as a lodging house, listed from 1938. By 1968 it was held by the M&D Hotel Company, with Richard Camereri as a partner.

    “Worth's Museum of Living Curiosities, known as the displayer of a giant squid; Lodging house, 1938-; M&D Hotel Co. (Richard Camereri, partner) 1968.”

    Source: National Register nomination

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