176 Lafayette Street

SoHo | built 1879

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

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1879
Detlef Lienau designs a five-story Italianate tenement at 176 Lafayette Street for William Chrystie
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William Chrystie built this five-story brick building in 1879 to designs by architect Detlef Lienau. It combined a ground-floor store with apartments above, on the edge of SoHo where factories, warehouses and tenements stood side by side. The upper facade keeps its wood cornice with scrolled brackets, and the upper floors are still residential.
“…designed by architect Detlef Lienau and built in 1879 for William Chrystie…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1935
Indoor bathrooms are finally added to the 1879 tenement at 176 Lafayette Street
Like other tenements of its era, the building went without indoor bathrooms for decades. The landmark report records that they were not installed until 1935, some fifty-six years after construction. The upper floors remain in residential use.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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