M. Kessler Hardware

229 Grand Street | Little Italy | built 1910

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1885

   Elisha Sniffen designs a five-story tenement with pointed arches at 229 Grand Street

   The Chinatown and Little Italy nomination lists 229 Grand Street as an 1885 five-story tenement by Elisha Sniffen, in a Renaissance Revival and Venetian style, faced in Philadelphia brick and brownstone with pointed arches and a heavy cornice. Ephemeral New York notes that M. Kessler Hardware has occupied the building for decades, with the Kessler name still visible in faded paint on the window.

   “229 Grand Tenement; M. Kessler. Five-story Philadelphia brick & brownstone tenement with pointed arches and heavy cornice. M. Kessler Hardware. Elisha Sniffen, 1885…”

   Source: National Register nomination

2. 1927

   January

   The New York Times reports on a trial over a $47,000 gunpoint jewelry holdup at the Schwartz Brothers pawnshop

   A New York Times story from January 1927, found by Ephemeral New York, describes a trial in which a man stood accused of a gem holdup at the Schwartz Brothers pawnshop at 229 Grand Street. Thieves took $47,000 in jewelry at gunpoint. Ephemeral New York guesses that the pawnshop advertised its jewelry on the shop window, where faded paint above the door appears to spell "jeweler." M. Kessler Hardware has occupied the shop for decades.

   Source: Ephemeral New York

Further reading

• The sign behind the sign at a Grand Street storeEphemeral New York

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