196 Spring Street

also 198 Spring Street | SoHo | built 1908

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1908
Dietrich & Smith build an Arts and Crafts tenement for Benjamin Winterbottom at 196 Spring Street
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Built in 1908 for Benjamin Winterbottom, this six-story new-law tenement was designed by the firm Dietrich & Smith. Its ornament follows the Arts and Crafts style, with diaper-patterned white brick and brick blind arches over the sixth-story windows. Paneled cast-iron piers flank the central entrance, and the original wrought-iron fire escape survives.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1908
Pittsburgh-trained architect Ernest G. W. Dietrich designs 196 Spring Street
Ernest George Washington Dietrich, born in Pittsburgh, trained with the firm of Drum & Kuhn and ran a practice there with Charles Barthburger until 1889, when he moved to New York. Partnered with a man named Smith, he designed the tenement at 196 Spring Street, the one building in the Sullivan-Thompson district credited to the firm.
“Dietrich & Smith designed the tenement building at 196 Spring Street in the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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