316 Mott Street
NoHo | built 1902
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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
Schneider & Herter design a seven-story Neoclassical tenement at 314-316 Mott Street
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The firm of Ernest W. Schneider and Henry Herter designed 314-316 Mott Street, completed in 1902 as a Neoclassical apartment house beside its twin at 308-312. The owners were Jonas Weil, Bernard Mayer and Mathilda Kassowitz, and the two buildings took the place of early-nineteenth-century row houses. Weil and Mayer were regular clients of the firm, which designed numerous tenements for them, mostly on the Lower East Side.
“…built in 1901-02 for Jonas Weil, Bernard Mayer & Mathilda Kassowitz at a time when many of the older buildings in the area were being replaced…”
- 1905
By 1905 every household at 314-316 Mott Street is Italian, and families keep moving out
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The northern edge of Little Italy was filling with Italian immigrant families when the building went up, and by 1905 all of its residents were of Italian descent. Turnover was heavy: eighteen of the nineteen families listed at 314-316 Mott in 1905 had left by 1915. The men in these buildings worked as laborers, tailors, dock workers and barbers, among other trades, and many of the women worked in sweatshops.
- 1925
Ground-floor apartments on Mott Street become shops in 1925, then apartments again in 1941
In 1925 the front apartments on the first story of the Mott Street tenements were turned into stores, with storefronts replacing the front walls. The shops did not last, and the space went back to apartments in 1941. Full bathrooms had been added in 1937, and the buildings became cooperative apartments in 1987.
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