112 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1889

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1841
An earlier building from about 1841 stands on the lot until a tenement replaces it
Property records cited by the Landmarks Preservation Commission show that an earlier building, dating to about 1841, stood on this lot. It was an earlier building on the site and was replaced in 1889 by the present tenement, which the architect Jobst Hoffmann built for himself after buying the lot that year.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1889
Architect Jobst Hoffmann builds a tenement here, then sells it to Frederich Huff and Jacob Gross
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Hoffmann bought the lot in 1889 and was both the architect and the first owner of the five-story Queen Anne tenement, which has a stoop and an ornamented entrance with keystones and floral panels. Property records show he sold the building soon afterward to Frederich Huff and Jacob Gross, so he held it only briefly.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1889
Sculpted Green Men decorate the facade of Hoffmann's tenement
Village Preservation notes that Hoffmann, born in Bavaria, lived on East 7th Street as well as designing two of its tenements, at numbers 100 and 112. The facade of 112 carries several sculpted Green Men, a Germanic decorative motif. East 7th Street was known as Decatur Place in the mid-1800s, and nine tenements rose on this block in just three years in the early 1860s.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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