Hornthal & Co. Building

31 Bond Street | NoHo | built 1889

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1857
Dr. Harvey Burdell is murdered in an earlier mansion on this site
Dentist Harvey Burdell, who had bought the 1827 mansion on the lot in 1855, was found stabbed and strangled in his office there. His housekeeper Emma Cunningham and a boarder, John Eckel, were tried for the murder and acquitted, and the killing was never solved. The mansion was demolished in 1888.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1889
De Lemos & Cordes design a new building for a casket maker
Architects De Lemos & Cordes replaced the Burdell mansion with a six-story loft building faced in beige brick over a granite-and-iron base. Its first tenant, Hornthal & Co., manufactured coffins and caskets, including a patented "ice casket" with compartments for ice.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1975
The Kampo Cultural Center moves into the former casket factory
Yasuko Harada bought the building for the newly organized Japanese cultural organization. A 1987 renovation added gallery space, a recording studio, a video room and artist studios, and that October the center hosted koto performances.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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