113 Prince Street
SoHo | built 1891
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- 1891
Cleverdon & Putzel build a French Renaissance cast-iron front for Frank Seitz at 113-115 Prince Street
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Frank Seitz commissioned Cleverdon & Putzel in 1890-91 to design three adjoining cast-iron buildings, 113-115, 117-119 and 121 Prince, behind one six-story facade. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls it a very late use of cast iron for a complete facade, though the material suited the florid French Renaissance ornament. Only the 113-115 section keeps its original cornice, which rests on modillions, with dentils between two bands of egg-and-dart molding.
“Nos. 113-115, 117-119 and 121 are three separate cast-iron buildings with a common facade; all were designed at the same time by Cleverdon and Putzel for Frank Seitz in 1890-91.”
- 1979
Etan Patz leaves his family's apartment at 113 Prince Street for the school bus and never boards it
On the morning of May 25, 1979, Etan walked alone for the first time, a block and a half to a school bus stop at West Broadway and Prince Street. He never got on the bus, and when he did not return home after school his mother contacted a friend's mother and then the police. Nearly 100 officers and bloodhounds searched that evening, and his father Stanley's photos of him became missing-child posters. Pedro Hernandez was convicted of his murder in 2017.
“Etan left his parents' SoHo apartment at 113 Prince Street by himself for the first time to walk a block and a half to board a school bus…”
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