142 Sullivan Street

SoHo | built 1900

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1900
Michael Bernstein designs 142 Sullivan Street as a buff-brick tenement for the Nieberg Brothers
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The Nieberg Brothers put up this six-story old-law tenement with ground-floor stores in 1900, working with architect Michael Bernstein. It is one of a matched pair with No. 144 next door. Buff brick carries white terra-cotta ornament, including stylized capitals at the fifth story and window frames with scrolled keystones, rosettes and cartouches. A pressed-metal cornice and cast-iron piers at the residential entrance complete the front.
“…one of two buildings (142-144 Sullivan Street) designed by Michael Bernstein in the Renaissance Revival style and built for the Nieberg Brothers in 1900…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
Russian-born architect Michael Bernstein designs two Sullivan Street tenements in one year
Michael Bernstein was born in Russia to Jewish parents and reached New York with them around 1870. City directories listed him as an architect from 1892, and from 1902 to 1911 he practiced with his brother Mitchell as Bernstein & Bernstein. In the Sullivan-Thompson district he designed six tenements and a stable, among them Nos. 142 and 144 Sullivan Street, both completed in 1900.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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