154 Prince Street

also 436 West Broadway, 438 West Broadway, 152 Prince Street | SoHo | built 1907

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

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1906
A new-law tenement with storefronts is built at 436-442 West Broadway, also numbered 150-154 Prince Street
In 1906, architect Charles M. Straub designed a six-story brick apartment house with ground-floor shops on the corner of West Broadway and Prince Street. It was built under the new-law tenement rules advanced in 1901, at a time when apartment buildings were rising next to lofts on SoHo's edges. The ground floor has been altered and the cornice is gone, but the upper floors are still residential.
“…constructed under new-law tenement legislation that was advanced in 1901, was designed by architect Charles M. Straub and built in 1906…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1906
Architect Charles M. Straub, born in Bavaria, designs the tenement as his long partnership ends
Charles M. Straub was born in Bavaria and came to the United States in 1882. New York directories list him as a partner of Herman Horenburger from 1891 to 1906, and after that he ran his own office through 1929. His 1906 tenement at 150-154 Prince Street dates from the year the partnership ended; he later designed an eight-story store and loft building in NoHo in 1908-09.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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