Sterling Building
14 East 17th Street | Union Square | built 1897
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1896
Leather goods merchants Charles and Edward Deitsch commission the Sterling Building
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Cleverdon & Putzel designed this narrow loft building in 1896 for the brothers Charles and Edward Deitsch, who dealt in leather goods. Among the tenants was Deitsch Bros. Fancy Leather Goods, along with cloak and suit merchants. A four-story rowhouse with a basement had previously occupied the site, possibly as one of a brick-fronted row at 12-16 East 17th Street.
“…designed this building for the leather goods merchants, Charles and Edward Deitsch, in 1896…”
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