25 East 3rd Street

East Village | built 1895

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

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1895
August Ruff builds a five-story tenement with two stores and apartments for 20 families
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In 1895 August Ruff had the five-story building at 25 East 3rd Street erected, with room for two stores and twenty families. His architects, Kurtzer & Rohl, also designed 53 Second Avenue for him. The entrance was later moved down to the basement when the stoop was removed, but the original bracketed cornice survives.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1895
Kurtzer & Rohl, a firm that built tenements for German clients, designs the house
Frederick Kurtzer and Richard Rohl were partners from roughly 1888 to 1901, concentrating on tenements and flats for a mostly German clientele. Rohl had come from Prussia in 1880 and kept his own practice for years after the partnership ended. Their work turns up in the Greenwich Village and St. Mark's historic districts, and this house on East 3rd Street dates from 1895.
“…were in partnership from about 1888 until 1901, specializing in tenements and flats buildings for a largely German clientele…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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