Mills House No. 1 annex

183 Sullivan Street | also 185 Sullivan Street | Greenwich Village | built 1897

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

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1897
Darius Ogden Mills commissions an annex to his model hotel for working men
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The first Mills House on Bleecker Street turned a small profit, which encouraged banker Darius Ogden Mills to build more model housing. Within about a year of its opening he hired Ernest Flagg to design an adjoining building here at 183 Sullivan Street as an annex. A second annex followed a decade later at 183 Thompson Street. Together the three buildings were an example of reform-era housing meant to improve conditions for the city's working class.
“Within a year of the opening of Mills House No. 1, Mills commissioned Flagg to design an adjacent building at 183 Sullivan Street (1897) for use as an annex.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1897
Ernest Flagg, later the architect of the Singer Building, designs the Sullivan Street annex
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Ernest Flagg designed this annex and the original Mills House No. 1 at 156 Bleecker Street for the philanthropist Darius Ogden Mills. He later designed the Little Singer Building in SoHo, built in 1902-04, and the 47-story Singer Building of 1906-08, which was the world's tallest office tower when it opened. The Singer Building has since been demolished.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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