101 MacDougal Street

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

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1900
The Austin family, headed by a Black Charleston native, lives at 101 MacDougal Street
The 1900 census lists Morgan J. Austin, who had come from Charleston, South Carolina in 1851, at 101 MacDougal Street with his wife Ann, the daughter of Irish immigrants, and their eight surviving children. The couple had been married 17 years. Their eldest child, a 15-year-old boy, already worked in a laundry. The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites the household as an interracial family of the old Little Africa neighborhood.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
The ground floor of 101 MacDougal Street turns into stores in 1908 and back into apartments in 1938
A. B. Ogden designed the five-story tenement at 101 MacDougal Street in 1883 for Emeline Johnston. In 1908 its first story was converted into stores, and the shop windows came out in 1938 when that floor went back to residential use. When the district was designated in 2013, part of the first story was being converted to commercial use again, under a stop-work order.
“Built as a tenement, in 1908 the first story was converted into stores. The store windows were removed in 1938 when the first floor was reconverted to residential use.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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