105 Thompson Street

SoHo | built 1897

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1. 1897

   Kate Duffy has a six-story buff brick tenement built at 105 Thompson Street

   Kate Duffy was the owner when this six-story old-law tenement went up in 1897, designed in a restrained Renaissance Revival style by Charles Rentz. The facade combines buff brick with brownstone and ends in a large modillioned cornice. At street level, the cast-iron columns flanking the entrance came from the John Davie & Son Foundry of Brooklyn, and both storefronts keep their projecting bays with twisted colonnettes.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1897

   Charles Rentz, architect of Webster Hall, designs the tenement at 105 Thompson Street

   The architect of 105 Thompson Street was Charles Rentz Jr. (1855-1906), a New Yorker listed as a beer dealer in 1879 and in city directories as an architect from 1882. He designed many flats and tenements, but his best-known work was Webster Hall and its annex of 1886-87. The landmarks commission credits him with just this one tenement in the Sullivan-Thompson district.

   “…his best known work of the time was his design for Webster Hall and its annex (1886-87, 1892…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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