169 Thompson Street

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1859
A tenement rises in a Houston Street row house's back yard, the South Village's earliest built as one
Around 1859 the open back yard of the row house at 108 West Houston Street was built over with 169 Thompson Street, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission calls the earliest known purpose-built tenement in the South Village. The row house itself was altered into a tenement at the same time. Most nearby lots had already been filled with houses, so large-scale tenement building did not reach the area until later in the century.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1859
J.E. Kinnier & Son build an Italianate tenement with shops and cast-iron storefront piers
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The tenement at 169 Thompson Street was built c. 1859 for J.E. Kinnier & Son as a six-story brick building with commercial space on the ground floor. Its Italianate details include stone lintels, brick sills and a bracketed cornice, and some of the original wood-framed display windows and cast-iron piers survive in the northern storefront. It was built in conjunction with the enlargement of the Houston Street house behind it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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