307 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1845

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1850
Rabbi Max Lilienthal buys 307 East 10th Street from its original owner, a mason
In 1850 Dr. Max Lilienthal, a German-born rabbi, bought 307 East 10th Street from its original owner, the mason Benjamin F. Camp, who had worked with architect Joseph Trench on projects including the Odd Fellows Hall. Lilienthal was the rabbi of Ansche Chesed, a Lower East Side congregation, and an early leader of Reform Judaism in America. The Landmarks report calls him perhaps the block's most illustrious resident.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1880
By 1880 five German families fill the house once owned by Rabbi Lilienthal
Lilienthal may have been the first German resident of East 10th Street, and many German immigrants of more modest means soon followed him into the new tenements and converted row houses. By 1880 five German families had moved into 307, his former home. The area was Kleindeutschland, home to more German speakers than anywhere in the world except Berlin and Vienna.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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