137 Thompson Street

SoHo | built 1875

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1. 1875

   George Holzeit designs 137 Thompson Street as a five-story red-brick tenement for Fred Kirchers

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   Architect George Holzeit designed this five-story tenement in 1875 for Fred Kirchers, built of red brick with metal trim. It is identical to its neighbor at 139 Thompson Street, which Holzeit and Kirchers built in the same year. Because it predates the 1901 tenement law, the Landmarks Preservation Commission classes it as a pre-law tenement, and it contributes to the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1912

   Lewis Hine photographs home work in a tenement at 137 Thompson Street

   Around 1912 the National Child Labor Committee's photographer Lewis Hine documented conditions inside several Sullivan-Thompson tenements, among them 137 Thompson Street. His photographs of the district's flats showed children sewing artificial flowers and other goods. Hine and other reformers gave much of the push for tenement-reform laws and limits on children's working ages and hours.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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