207 Sullivan Street

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

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1887
John B. Snook builds a five-story tenement with stores for Patrick Skelly, twin to one on Bleecker Street
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Patrick Skelly hired John B. Snook & Sons to design this five-story tenement with shops on the ground floor in 1887. It has four paneled cast-iron pillars at the first story, with limestone lintels and belt courses above. It looks almost identical to the tenement Snook built for Skelly the year before at 167 Bleecker Street.
“This building is nearly identical in appearance to the tenement at 167 Bleecker Street, also constructed by Snook for Skelly in the previous year.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1937
The Children's Aid Society buys the building and neighboring parcels totaling about 15,000 square feet
In 1937 the Children's Aid Society bought this tenement along with several neighboring parcels on the same tax lot, together covering about 15,000 square feet. The New York Times covered the deal in 1938 under the headline "Building is Bought by Welfare Group." The society held the property until 1993.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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