191 Prince Street
also 132 Sullivan Street | SoHo | built 1900
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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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- 1826
A grocer and a carpenter buy the corner lot at Prince and Sullivan streets and build four houses
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On July 10, 1826, George S. Mills, listed in the deed as a grocer, and John A. Ryerson, a carpenter, bought vacant ground on the northwest side of the Prince Street and Sullivan Street intersection. Over the next year or so they put up four houses on it. Three survive, 191 and 193 Prince Street and one on Sullivan Street, and 191 Prince Street began as a two-story house.
- 1862
Grocer John J. Borger, who lives at 191 Prince Street, builds a tenement on the same lot at 132 Sullivan Street
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Around 1862-63 the grocer John J. Borger, who lived at 191 Prince Street, put up a four-story brick house on the same corner lot, listed in the 1862-63 city directory as 132 1/2 Sullivan Street. The 1870 census shows several families living there, which indicates it was built as a tenement. Its corbelled brick cornice appears to match the Federal house next door, which was raised and altered at the same time.
“…built in 1862-1863 by John J. Borger, a grocer who lived in the building at 191 Prince Street, also on this lot.”
- 1863
The two-story house at 191 Prince Street is lifted to four stories
Tax records show 191 Prince Street was only two stories high until 1863, when it was raised to four. Flemish-bond brickwork at the second and third floors suggests the existing house was physically lifted, with the basement removed so the ground floor sat at street level. A shop may have been added then. The Sullivan Street side received new window openings in 1906, and a brick rear extension replaced the old one in 1908.
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- 193 Prince Street2 entries
- 132 Sullivan Street1 entry
- 195 Prince Street2 entries
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- 197 Prince Street1 entry
- 136 Sullivan Street1 entry