121 Prince Street

also 113 Prince Street | SoHo | built 1891

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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.

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  1. 1891

    Cleverdon & Putzel finish the 121 Prince Street warehouse, the end of a cast-iron triple front, for Frank Seitz

    Cleverdon & Putzel designed 121 Prince Street for Frank Seitz as a six-story, five-bay warehouse, built from June 1890 to March 1891. It forms one florid French Renaissance cast-iron front with its neighbors at 113-115 and 117-119, which were designed at the same time. The Landmarks Preservation Commission calls this a very late use of iron for a whole facade, though it says the material suited the ornate motifs. The survey records that the roof cornice at No. 121 is missing.

    “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.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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