14 Mott Street lofts

14 Mott Street | Chinatown | built 1900

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.

1879
The Five Points Mission opens a Chinese school at 14 Mott Street
In 1879 the Five Points Mission started a Chinese School at 14 Mott Street, one of several efforts by Protestant reformers to teach English and Christian doctrine to Chinese residents. They were then a small community: the 1880 census counted only 747 Chinese people, and just 72 of them in the Chinese Quarter. The school closed within about ten years.
“The Five Points Mission opened its Chinese School at 14 Mott Street in 1879, one of many efforts by Protestant reformers…”
Source: National Register nomination
1894
Louis F. Heinecke designs the four-story loft building at 14 Mott Street
The present building at 14 Mott Street is a three-bay, four-story loft and store designed by Louis F. Heinecke in 1894. It was refaced in pale yellow brick around 1920. The Historic District inventory lists it among the Mott Street buildings on the east side between Worth and Bayard Streets.
Source: National Register nomination

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