Alois Kirchgassner House
191 East 2nd Street | East Village | built 1899
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1853
Alois and Mary Kirchgassner move into the Italianate house
Alois Kirchgassner and his wife Mary move into the new, modest Italianate-style house at 191 East 2nd Street. Alois runs a beer saloon nearby, while Mary runs a boarding house from the home for fellow Germans, among them butter merchants, tailors, a stonecutter and a porter. Sons Alois Jr. and Albert later become machinists.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1895
Polish newspaper editor Adam Bautro is arrested for libel while living here
Adam P. Bautro, publisher and editor of the Polish-language weekly Gazetta-Polska, is living here by 1895, when he is arrested on a criminal libel charge brought by a physician once connected with the paper. The Kirchgassners left around 1879, and the house kept running as a German boarding house under a series of owners. Bautro may have been its first Polish-born boarder.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The Alois Kirchgassner House - 191 East 2nd StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- 191 East 2nd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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