Clover Hotel
312 Bowery | NoHo | built 1920
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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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- 1902
Two old houses at 312-314 Bowery are joined to become a museum in 1902
In 1902 two nineteenth-century dwellings at 312 and 314 Bowery were connected inside to form a museum. A movie theater followed in 1913, but that use was short-lived and the building became a factory in 1915. The Landmarks Preservation Commission reports that it was altered several times in these early decades of the twentieth century.
“…the houses were joined internally in 1902 to become a museum…”
- 1940
Shampan & Shampan remake 312-314 Bowery into the four-story Clover Hotel
In 1940 the architects Shampan & Shampan reworked the old pair of houses at 312-314 Bowery for Queenside Realty Co., adding a fourth story and a new facade. It opened as the Clover Hotel, a single-room-occupancy house and one of many cheap hotels for poor men on the Bowery in the twentieth century. The firm is also known for the Ageloff Towers apartments on East 3rd Street.
“…included the erection of the fourth story and the installation of a new facade…”
- 1970
Beth Israel takes over the Clover Hotel as a halfway house in the early 1970s
In the early 1970s Beth Israel Medical Center took over the Clover Hotel at 312-314 Bowery and ran it as the Morris Bernstein Halfway House. Queenside Realty had owned the building since 1939, and it was sold in 1968, with a lease to Kenneth C. Noland in 1969.
“In the early 1970s, the Clover Hotel was taken over by Beth Israel Medical Center for its Morris Bernstein Halfway House.”
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