167 Bleecker Street

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1887
John B. Snook & Sons builds a five-story tenement for Patrick Skelly at 167 Bleecker Street
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Architect John B. Snook & Sons designed this neo-Grec tenement in 1886-87 for owner Patrick Skelly. It held sixteen families, four on each upper floor, with a store at street level. Snook built a nearly identical tenement for Skelly at 207 Sullivan Street the following year.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1988
The Mondo Perso blues club opens on the ground floor of 167 Bleecker Street in the late 1980s
From the late 1980s through at least 2001 the ground floor was home to the Mondo Perso blues club, which booked some of the best-known acts of the 1990s, including Joan Osborne and Blues Traveler. Before that it was the site of Mills Tavern, where notables such as Bob Dylan are said to have performed, and the tavern remained until at least the 1980s.
“One-time site of the Mills Tavern where notables such as Bob Dylan performed.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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