212 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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1832
Asa Marshall builds a Greek Revival rowhouse here, later divided into tenement apartments
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Tax assessments show a house on this lot by 1832, valued at $2,200, with Asa Marshall as the original owner. A rear building may have been added in 1851 and shows up on the 1852 Perris atlas. Both buildings were probably divided into multi-family homes in the 19th century, and city inspection records confirm the front house was a tenement by 1902.
“Tax assessments indicate the presence of a house on this tax lot as early as 1832, valued at $2,200.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1912
Family members as young as nine are photographed making flowers in a Sullivan Street apartment
In 1912 the National Child Labor Committee put together an album titled "Tenement Homework." Its photographs show family members, some only nine years old, making flowers inside an apartment at 212 Sullivan Street. The Library of Congress holds the images in its Prints and Photographs Division.
“…depict family members as young as nine years of age making flowers in their apartment at 212 Sullivan Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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