318 Lafayette Street
also 316 Lafayette Street, 153 Crosby Street | NoHo | built 1887
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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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- 1887
Louis Ettlinger joins two Crosby Street buildings and extends them 25 feet south
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Before Lafayette Street was cut through, the older buildings on this lot faced Crosby Street and covered the northern two-thirds of the present lot. In 1887 owner Louis Ettlinger had them joined inside and extended 25 feet south. William Schickel & Co. gave the combined building a new facade.
- 1892
Louis Ettlinger's lithography firm becomes the American Lithographic Company
Louis Ettlinger (1846-1927), who owned 316-322 Lafayette Street, was a German-born lithographer who emigrated in 1866. In the United States he founded Schumacher & Ettlinger, a lithography firm that became the American Lithographic Company in 1892. He also grew trees from around the world at his Peekskill estate, and he owned this building until at least 1912, leasing space to small manufacturers.
- 1897
The extension of Lafayette Street forces a new east facade for the Ettlinger building
Lafayette Street was extended through the area in 1897, and the east side of Ettlinger's building was altered to face it. Richard Berger designed the new Lafayette Street wall, and Ettlinger still owned the property. The city filing described the job as a new front wall made necessary by the widening of the street.
“…eastern side of the building was altered and a new east facade was constructed, upon the extension of Lafayette Street through the area in 1897. The architect was Richard Berger…”
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