U.S. Pacific Hotel

104 Bowery | also 106 Bowery | Little Italy | built 1920

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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. 1880

    104-106 Bowery, a pair of 1830s rowhouses, operates as a saloon theatre by 1880

    The nomination lists a beer garden, billiard rooms and a shop with a dwelling at 104-106 Bowery in 1874, when the property was altered into a theatre. By 1880 it was a saloon theatre, and a gallery was added for audiences. The building began as a pair of 1830s rowhouses that were combined in the 1880s to house the theatre.

    Source: National Register nomination

  2. 1893

    The Bowery theatre at 104-106 changes names through Roumania Opera House, Adler Theatre and Teatro Italiano

    Over several decades the playhouse at 104-106 Bowery carried many names. Records list it as the National Concert Saloon, the National Theatre in 1884, the Roumania Opera House in 1893 and the Adler Theatre in 1895. It was also known as the Teatro Italiano, and it became a motion picture theatre in 1913.

    “National Concert Saloon, National Theatre (1884); Roumania Opera House (1893); Adler Theatre (1895);Teatro Italiano.”

    Source: National Register nomination

  3. 1899

    Alderman Fleck's Manhattan Concert Hall at 104 Bowery is named in the Mazet vice hearings

    Alderman Fleck owned the theatre at 104 Bowery, which ran as the Manhattan Concert Hall from about 1898 to 1900. Testimony before the Mazet Committee about vice along the Bowery mentioned the hall. The National Register nomination places it with the other Bowery amusement venues of the time.

    “As the Manhattan Concert Hall, owned by Alderman Fleck, 104 Bowery got a mention in the Mazet Committee testimony on vice on the Bowery.”

    Source: National Register nomination

  4. 1928

    The former theatre at 104-106 Bowery is refaced and turned into a lodging house

    In 1928 the old theatre building at 104-106 Bowery was refaced in an Arts and Crafts-influenced style and converted into a lodging house, later known as the Comet Hotel. The four-story, four-bay brick front has herringbone patterns and a stepped parapet with pilasters. The building now operates as the U.S. Pacific Hotel.

    Source: National Register nomination

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