14 Morton Street

West Village | built 1895

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1895
John Kehoe builds 14 Morton Street for twenty families, mostly Irish by 1900
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Developer John Kehoe put up 14 Morton Street in 1895 to a Renaissance Revival design by Frederick Jenth, with four apartments on each floor. The 1900 census recorded 20 families, 14 of them Irish immigrants or their children. Heads of household included three teamsters, a carpenter, a milkman, a shipping clerk and a brewer.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1930
By 1930 the tenement at 14 Morton Street is largely Italian
The 1930 census counted 15 families at 14 Morton Street, ten of them first-generation Italian immigrants, alongside families from Yugoslavia and Russia or Lithuania. Residents worked as a forelady in a bedrobe factory, a biscuit-factory baker, a plasterer, a laborer and an elevator operator in a courthouse.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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