290 Elizabeth Street

NoHo | built 1878

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1. 1878

   Charles Mettam designs a neo-Grec tenement with a store at 290 Elizabeth Street

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   Georgianna B. English owned 290 Elizabeth Street when Charles Mettam designed this four-story neo-Grec tenement with a ground-floor store in 1878. It was one of six lots created from the estate of Horatio N. Humphreys, built by John J. Brown. Irish families filled it by 1890 and Italians by 1900, and the cast-iron columns at street level came from the Cook & Radley Co.

   “…built in 1878 for owner Georgianna B. English at a time when many of the older buildings in the area were being replaced…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1915

   Sixty people live in the three floors of 290 Elizabeth Street in 1915

   In 1915 the three residential floors of 290 Elizabeth Street held eight families totaling sixty people, half of them children, and the small building had come to typify badly overcrowded tenement life. The older men worked as laborers, dockworkers, peddlers, garment workers and painters, and many of the women worked in sweatshops.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1933

   John and Angela Bivona open a bakery at 290 Elizabeth Street

   John and Angela Bivona purchased 290 Elizabeth Street in 1933 and started a bakery in the ground-floor space, which they ran through 1965. They paid for a one-story rear extension in 1935. The Landmarks Preservation Commission found that the ground floor was still a bakery when it surveyed the district.

   “John and Angela Bivona bought the building in 1933 and opened a bakery on the ground floor…”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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