115 Sullivan Street

SoHo | built 1900

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

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1867
Daniel Wilson raises the house and its rear tenement, which had stood on the lot since 1851
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In 1867 owner Daniel Wilson added a third story to the front house at 115 Sullivan Street. The same year he raised the tenement behind it to four stories. That rear building, reached by a paved passage along the south lot line, had been put up for Thomas Griffin as early as 1851, and it is only partly visible from the street.
“As early as 1851 a rear tenement was built on this lot for Thomas Griffin, and by 1867 ... this rear tenement was raised to four stories…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1949
A 1949 renovation strips the mansard roof and stoop from 115 Sullivan Street
Until 1949 the front building at 115 Sullivan Street still carried a Second Empire mansard roof, visible in a tax photograph of about 1940. That year's alteration removed the mansard and the stoop, brought the entrance down to the sidewalk and filled the front areaway. The plain brick front seen today dates from that work, and the landmarks district treats the building as non-contributing.
“A substantial alteration in 1949 removed both the mansard roof and stoop, bringing the entrance to the sidewalk…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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