12 Bowery

Chinatown | built 1915

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1865

    A brownstone Italianate loft goes up at 12 Bowery in the 1860s

    The four-story, three-bay loft at 12 Bowery dates to about the 1860s and is faced in brownstone. The Bowery nomination notes its round-arched windows with stylized hoods and an intact cornice, and points to it as a modest counterpart at the southern end of the street to the large Cooper Union Foundation Building at the northern end.

    Source: National Register nomination

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