12 Pell Street
also 14 Pell Street, 12A Pell Street | Chinatown | built 1915
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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.
- 1887
A five-story Italianate tenement goes up at 12-14 Pell Street in 1887
The National Register survey of the Chinatown and Little Italy Historic District dates the tenement at 12-14 Pell Street to 1887. It rises five stories across seven bays of brick, trimmed with marble or limestone sills and lintels and topped by a cornice with modillion brackets, in the Italianate manner. The building stands on the north side of Pell Street, where the same survey also lists a Chinese association building at number 10 and a Hip Sing Association building at number 15.
Source: National Register nomination
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