16 East 17th Street
Union Square | built 1899
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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.
- 1898
William J. Dilthey designs an eight-story loft building for Thomas McKean, soon filled with furriers and publishers
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In 1898 William J. Dilthey designed this twenty-five-foot-wide building for the owner Thomas McKean, on the site of a four-story dwelling. Tenants listed in the Landmarks Preservation Commission's report include furriers, publishers, cloak and suit merchants and embroiderers. Its facade has lion's heads at the tops of the stone piers flanking the lower floors.
“William J. Dilthey designed this building for owner Thomas McKean in 1898. Tenants included furriers, publishers, cloak and suit merchants and embroiderers…”
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