195 Prince Street

SoHo | built 1879

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1879
John B. Snook designs a Neo-Grec tenement at 195 Prince Street for G. Rauchfuss
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In 1879 the architect John B. Snook designed this five-story brick tenement for G. Rauchfuss. Its stone-trimmed window lintels, cornice and pedimented entrance on stylized pilasters show the angular, incised look of the Neo-Grec style. The building still has its historic fire escape and its basement windows, and the Landmarks Commission describes it as mostly intact.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1879
Prolific architect John B. Snook, who designed the first Grand Central Terminal, draws up 195 Prince Street
John B. Snook, born in England, was working in New York as a carpenter and builder by 1835 and later headed one of the city's largest architecture practices. With Joseph Trench he designed the A. T. Stewart store at 280 Broadway, and he is known for the first Grand Central Terminal of 1869-71, since demolished. In the Sullivan-Thompson district, the one tenement he designed is this one at 195 Prince Street.
“In the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District he was responsible for the design of one tenement building at 195 Prince Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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