143 Sullivan Street
SoHo | built 1875
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- 1875
William Zschwetzke builds 143 Sullivan Street, one of three tenements he owned in a row
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In 1875 William Zschwetzke designed, built and owned three five-story red-brick tenements with stores at 141, 143 and 145 Sullivan Street. Number 143 is in the Neo-Grec style, with projecting pressed-metal sills and flat lintels above decorative panels. It is a pre-law tenement, built before the city's Tenement House Act of 1879. The ground floor was later rebuilt for apartments, though cast-iron piers may survive under stucco.
- 1886
Zschwetzke leases 143 Sullivan Street to Charles Reinig for $3,500
By 1886 William Zschwetzke, who had designed and built the tenement in 1875, was renting 143 Sullivan Street out to Charles Reinig. The lease ran two years from January 1 at $3,500, and the two men had already done a number of real estate deals together. Zschwetzke was still the owner at the time.
- 1892
Smallpox spreads to 143 Sullivan Street and the tenement is fumigated
The 1892 smallpox outbreak in New York became the subject of an official city report that focused on the tenements at 141, 143 and 145 Sullivan Street. The disease spread from No. 141 to residents of No. 143, who fell ill, and the building was fumigated and disinfected. Smallpox still spread through the surrounding blocks, then known as the Italian district.
“…as the disease spread from the adjacent 141 Sullivan Street, residents of 143 Sullivan Street were taken ill and the tenement fumigated and disinfected…”
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