Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery | also 310 Bowery | NoHo | built 1910
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- 1820
Tobacconist George Lorillard builds 308 and 310 Bowery as investment houses
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Around 1820 tobacconist George Lorillard built a Federal-style, two-and-a-half-story brick house at 308 Bowery, with a matching one at 310, as an investment. The area was filling with homes for the city's growing middle class. The Lorillards owned 308 until 1869. Its earliest known residents were Walter Cook in the mid-1820s and J. Blackstock later in the decade, and by 1851 it held two households, a jeweler and a confectioner.
“This Federal-style dwelling was constructed c.1820 as investment property for tobacconist George Lorillard…”
- 1880
The King family runs a men's furnishings store at 308 Bowery and lives upstairs
By 1880 Herman King and his father Abraham, German-born fancy-goods merchants, rented 308 Bowery from owner Alexander Rich. They ran a men's furnishings store on the ground floor and lived on the upper floors with their family. They added a storefront in 1881, replaced it in 1889 and 1900, and in 1900 expanded into 310 Bowery next door. The Kings lived here through 1905.
- 1923
Benjamin Sobol buys 310 Bowery for his contracting firm, which stays until 1980
In 1923 Benjamin Sobol bought 310 Bowery, the neighbor of 308 in the old Lorillard pair, for his Sobol Construction Co., which also ran a carpenter's shop there. He had architect Morris Schwartz enlarge the attic that year and the rear extension in 1927, and in 1944 the building was joined at the back to 302 Elizabeth Street. Sobol was still in the building in 1980.
“In 1923, the building was acquired by Benjamin Sobol to house his contracting firm, Sobol Construction Co.”
- 2002
Poet Bob Holman opens the Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery
Poet Bob Holman founded the Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery in 2002. Explaining the choice of location to The New York Times, he called the Bowery a vein of change and said that changing the world means being in it. The club closed for renovations on July 17, 2012, and reopened in March 2013 as Bowery Poetry, a joint venue with Duane Park, whose burlesque shows share the space with poetry programming.
“The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002.”
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