Rhinelander Apartments

12 5th Avenue | Greenwich Village | built 1903

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1902
February 14
Developer Max Juster files plans for the Rhinelander apartment hotel
Juster, whose earlier work had been tenements, bought 12 Fifth Avenue in January 1902 and chose architect Louis Korn to design a nine-story apartment hotel. Korn's plans, filed on February 14, put the cost at $150,000. When the building was completed in 1904, residents had maid and hallboy service and a restaurant, in apartments of two to six rooms.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1906
The building's manager turns away writer Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky, in New York on a fund-raising trip in April 1906, was evicted from the Lafayette-Brevoort hotel after his outspoken comments. His bags were sent to the Rhinelander, but manager Frank Geraty told Gorky and his companion before midnight that they could not stay. They got the same answer at the Hotel Victoria and the Hotel Belleclaire.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1949
A renovation creates a ground-floor doctor's office and new apartments, and likely removes the portico
The 1949 work put a doctor's office on the ground floor and divided the upper floors into apartments, mostly four to a floor, with one more apartment on the roof. The columned limestone entrance portico and the parapet roof were most likely removed then.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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