15 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1894

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1894
German-born developers Laemmlein and Joseph Buttenwieser build a five-story tenement for 20 families
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George F. Pelham designed the building, finished in 1893-94 for the German-born developers Laemmlein and Joseph L. Buttenwieser. It held four apartments on each floor and two stores in the basement. The facade mixes Romanesque and Renaissance Revival detail in buff brick with stone and terra-cotta string courses.
“…constructed in 1893-94 for German-born developers Laemmlein and Joseph L. Buttenwieser…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
The 1900 census finds immigrants from Italy, Ireland, Germany and China among the building's 20 families
Census takers counted 20 families here in 1900: two native-born, five from Italy, four from Ireland, one from Germany and one from China, plus second-generation Irish and German households. The residents worked as dressmakers, day laborers, a department store saleswoman, a longshoreman and a baggage master. By 1930 only fourteen families remained, twelve of them immigrants, eleven from Italy.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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