Cella Building
111 Sullivan Street | SoHo | built 1900
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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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- 1893
Joseph Cella builds a five-story tenement with a ground-floor shop at 111 Sullivan Street
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Joseph Cella had Robert Hankinson design a five-story buff brick tenement here in 1893. Built as an old-law tenement, it had a commercial space at street level and apartments above. Its Queen Anne facade uses terra-cotta panels and corbelled brick, and the metal cornice spells out the name Cella Building in raised letters.
- 1960
The Cella Building's old shopfront becomes an apartment in 1960
A 1960 alteration turned the ground floor of 111 Sullivan Street, once a commercial storefront, into living space. The opening was filled in and stuccoed, and a modern door and windows were added. Elsewhere on the facade, through-wall air conditioners have replaced the original terra-cotta panels on each floor.
“…ground floor, which was originally a commercial storefront, was converted to residential use and infilled and stuccoed with a modern door and windows in 1960…”
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