294 Elizabeth Street
also 294A Elizabeth Street | NoHo | built 1878
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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 for Sarah S. Taylor at 294 Elizabeth Street
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Built in 1878 for Sarah S. Taylor, this four-story brick tenement with a ground-floor store was one of a group of similar buildings on lots created from the Humphreys estate. Charles Mettam was the architect and John J. Brown the builder, and the storefront has cast-iron columns by Cook & Radley. The Humphreys family held the building until 1946, when a foreclosure ended their ownership.
“…built in 1878 for owner Sarah S. Taylor…”
- 1915
Eight families, 54 people, crowd into three floors at 294 Elizabeth Street
In 1915 the building's three floors of apartments held eight Italian families totaling fifty-four people, forty-two of them adults. The men worked as dock workers, peddlers, garment workers, clerks and shoemakers, and many of the women worked in sweatshops. Joseph Maneri ran a funeral home on the ground floor, which stayed there through 1950.
- 1955
The St. Nicholas Foundation builds a chapel at 294 Elizabeth Street for East European immigrants
The St. Nicholas Foundation bought the building in 1951 and in 1955 turned the first-floor store into a chapel. Its pastor, Reverend Alexander Tzuglevich, lived upstairs with other immigrants from Eastern Europe. The foundation stayed until the mid-1970s, and a later owner converted the chapel into an apartment in 1992.
“…built a chapel on the first floor in 1955. Reverend Alexander Tzuglevich , the pastor , and other East European immigrants lived on the upper floors.”
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