178 Spring Street

also 178 1/2 Spring Street | SoHo | built 1854

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

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1825
A two-story frame dwelling stands on the lot of 178 Spring Street by 1825
Before the present tenement, this lot held a two-story frame dwelling built no later than 1825. The shoemaker Casper Eckhard bought the property, with that house on it, in 1846. It was an earlier building on the site and was later replaced.
“Eckhard acquired the property in 1846, which at the time contained a two- story frame dwelling built at least as early as 1825.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1854
Shoemaker Casper Eckhard builds 178 Spring Street, one of the district's two earliest surviving tenements
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Around 1854 Casper Eckhard, a shoemaker who had immigrated from the Hesse-Kassel region, put up a five-story Italianate tenement on his lot. The Landmarks Commission counts it among the two earliest purpose-built tenements still standing in the Sullivan-Thompson district. It still has its simple wooden cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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