354 Bowery

NoHo | built 1832

Open on the map5 entries

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

  1. 1832

    Widow Mary Waldron builds a row of houses on the Bowery, including 354, and later passes it to Cornelia

    Tax records show that Mary Waldron, a widow, put up houses on her lots along the Bowery's west side, north of Great Jones Street, around 1832, among them 354 and 356. She deeded 354 to Cornelia Waldron in 1845. Under Cornelia, probably around 1854, the house was replaced or enlarged into the five-story building with a bracketed cornice and stone lintels that stands today.

    “Mary Waldron, a widow, had built houses on the lots she owned on the west side of the Bowery north of Great Jones Street c. 1832…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1854

    The building bridges Greek Revival and Italianate styles and keeps early wrought-iron fire escapes

    The Bowery Historic District nomination describes 354 and 356 Bowery as a pair of five-story, three-bay brick buildings, built around 1832 and altered around 1854. They sit between the Greek Revival and Italianate periods, and the nomination singles them out for their decorative wrought and strap iron fire escapes, which are largely intact. City landmark staff labeled the pair stripped Italianate.

    “Bridging the Greek Revival and the Italianate are 354-356 Bowery, originally constructed c. 1832 and altered c. 1854.”

    Source: National Register nomination

  3. 1921

    A Bowery lodging house in 1880 becomes a factory building in 1921

    The 1880 census found lodging-house keeper Virgilio Del Genovese here with his brothers and four male boarders, while a French merchant tailor, Henry Partzgen, and his family lived in the same building. It stayed a lodging house until 1921, when a new owner converted it to a factory. Around 1929 to 1935 Liberman Brothers, dealers in crockery and hotel china, occupied it, followed by Hercules Sheet Metal Products by about 1939.

    “It remained as a lodging house until 1921 when it was converted to use as a factory under a new owner.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  4. 1940

    A weathered Hershey's Ice Cream sign still hangs from the facade, put up after 1940

    Ephemeral New York noticed a worn sign embossed with the Hershey's Ice Cream name on both sides, hanging from the front of 354 Bowery. It does not appear in the 1940 tax photograph, so it went up later. The photo from that year shows hardware stores, sign makers and a cheap hotel, the Gotham, along the block. The writer calls it a possible "privilege" sign, a store sign the brand supplied for free advertising.

    Source: Ephemeral New York

  5. 1947

    Cook's Hotel & Restaurant Supply expands the building, and by the 1970s artists have moved in

    In 1947 a rear extension at the cellar and first floor was built for Cook's Hotel & Restaurant Supply Co., which occupied the building. As manufacturing declined after the war, empty loft space in NoHo drew artists, who had moved into 354 Bowery by the 1970s. It is now a condominium with a restaurant on the ground floor.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Further reading

Nearby

All 222 buildings with stories in NoHo