292 Elizabeth Street

NoHo | built 1878

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

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1878
Charles Mettam designs a neo-Grec tenement with a store at 292 Elizabeth Street
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Charles Mettam designed this four-story brick building, which went up in 1878 for Horatio and George W. Humphreys, with John J. Brown as builder. It was one of six adjoining lots created when the estate of Horatio N. Humphreys was divided among his heirs, and the family kept it until 1946. Its storefront still has cast-iron columns made by the Aetna Iron Works.
“This building lot and the five adjoining lots were created by the subdivision of the estate of Horatio N. Humphreys among his survivors…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1900
German tenants give way to Italian families at 292 Elizabeth Street by 1900
By 1890 most of the households here were German immigrants, but by 1900 every family was Italian, reflecting the rapid growth of the neighborhood's Italian population. The building stayed mostly Italian and Italian-American into the 1970s. Long-term tenants included the Giuseppe Spiotta family (about 1915 to 1940) and the Joseph Milazzo family (about 1945 to 1980), with Carmine Ruberto selling bottles on the ground floor from about 1955 to 1970.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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