104 West Houston Street

Greenwich Village | built 1881

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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. 1881

    Louis Dexheimer opens an oyster-and-dining restaurant under his new tenement at 104 West Houston, then tries to sell it

    In 1881 Louis P. Dexheimer and his wife Julia built the five-story building, designed by William E. Waring, with a restaurant on the ground floor and eight apartments above. An advertisement touted the new flats as having the latest improvements, at a rent of $25. By January 1882 Dexheimer was advertising his oyster and dining room for sale cheap, and in April he tried again, citing sickness and a need to close quickly.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1890

    September 21

    A young German servant is found dead with the gas partly on in the Reichert apartment

    Charles Reichert ran a butcher shop in the former restaurant space from 1888 and lived upstairs with his wife and a live-in servant. In 1890 the 17-year-old German immigrant Caroline Henneman wrote to her sweetheart, William Burgess, asking him to find her a job, and she moved into the Reichert apartment on September 19. The World reported that she was found dead in bed on the morning of September 21 with the gas partly turned on, engaged to marry Burgess the next month.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1897

    Butcher Charles Reichert installs a gas-engine refrigerating plant in his cellar at 104 West Houston Street

    By late 1897 Charles Reichert had fitted the cellar of his butcher shop with a refrigerating plant run by a gas engine, which also drove a chopper for meat along with several fans and pumps. The Butchers' Advocate reported on December 1 that the equipment was an economical and paying investment. Reichert's business prospered enough that he bought a three-story tenement at 166 Thompson Street by 1908.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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