108 Thompson Street
SoHo | built 1844
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1885
A radical Italian group named for Carlo Cafiero is based at 108 Thompson Street by 1885
By 1885 a socialist-anarchist group called Carlo Cafiero was based at 108 Thompson Street, one of the Italian clubs and societies active in the Sullivan-Thompson neighborhood. In 1888 it began publishing L'Anarchico. The historian Marcella Bencivenni ranks it first among nearly 200 radical Italian-language newspapers issued in the United States from the late 1800s through World War I.
- 1961
The old row house at 108 Thompson Street is joined to 106 and turned into apartments
Records show 108 Thompson Street was a row house built before 1844, with a slant roof and wood cornice by 1870. In 1961 the architects Wechsler & Schimenti joined it internally with 106 next door for Thompson Street Realties, Inc., a firm the two architects themselves headed. Shops and cellars on the lower floors became apartments, and the facade was given a uniform painted parge coat.
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