11 Bleecker Street
NoHo | built 1825
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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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- 1825
A Federal-style house goes up at 11 Bleecker Street for Stephen J. Brinckerhoff
Between about 1822 and 1825 a Federal-style brick house was built at 11 Bleecker Street for Stephen J. Brinckerhoff, as the area filled with homes for the city's growing middle class. The three-bay house still shows Flemish-bond brickwork at the second story. A story and a bracketed wooden roof cornice were added in the 1860s.
“…constructed c.1822-25 for Stephen J. Brinkerhoff at a time when this area was developing with homes for the city's expanding middle class…”
- 1866
Prussian immigrant Ludwig Anger raises 11 Bleecker by a story and lives there until 1880
In 1866-67 Ludwig Anger added a story to the house and gave it Italianate details, including a bracketed wooden roof cornice. A Prussian immigrant, he owned and lived in the building through 1880, and his heirs kept it until 1914. For the rest of the century their tenants were fellow Prussians, and after 1900 Italian immigrants took the apartments.
“Ludwig Anger, who owned and occupied the building through 1880, and whose heirs retained possession of the building until 1914…”
- 1923
Ben Trachtenberg converts 11 Bleecker into a fur store and loft in 1923
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In 1923 Ben Trachtenberg bought the building, whose apartments had housed Prussian and then Italian immigrants, and turned it into a store and loft for the fur firm Benjamin Trachtenberg & Sons-in-Law. He lost the building in 1934.
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