237 East 5th Street

East Village | built 1909

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

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1909
Harrison & Sackheim design a Renaissance Revival apartment house at 237 East 5th Street for Harris Sokolski
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Around 1909 the firm of Harrison & Sackheim designed this six-story apartment house for owner Harris Sokolski. The LPC classes it as Renaissance Revival, with brick and limestone walls. The south front has an elaborate entry portico with carved pilasters and Corinthian capitals, and round-arched windows on the sixth story.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1909
M. Joseph Harrison and Benjamin Sackheim, partners from 1909 to 1912, design 237 East 5th Street
The LPC's architect biographies show that M. Joseph Harrison worked in partnership with Benjamin Sackheim only during 1909-1912, and that a 1909 directory also lists him as a contractor with Sackheim and David L. Weisenberg. In 1922 he announced that he would no longer practice as an architect but would work only as a builder. Their 1909 apartment house at 237 East 5th Street is the work the report cites.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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