The Schumacher & Ettlinger Building

36 Bleecker Street | also 321 Mott Street | NoHo | built 2016

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

  1. 1875

    Bauch & Gougelmann sell custom-made artificial eyes at 36 Bleecker Street

    In the decade after the Civil War, No. 36 Bleecker Street housed the shop of Bauch & Gougelmann, which advertised custom-made glass eyes at fair prices. By then the blockfront sat in a busy commercial district, and by 1880 Louis Ettlinger owned Nos. 32 through 36. This was an earlier building on the site, before the lithographers' printing house was built here.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1885

    Edward E. Raht designs a Romanesque Revival printing plant for Schumacher & Ettlinger

    Edward E. Raht designed the lithographers' factory in the Romanesque Revival style, and it was built in 1882-85 at the corner of Bleecker and Mott streets. It originally had brick and marble facades and a mansard roof. Charles Eberspacher of East 5th Street was the mason, and Hamilton and Henry were the carpenters. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that many printers and lithographers were then settling in this part of NoHo East as older dwellings became commercial.

    “This Romanesque Revival-style factory was designed by architect Edward E. Raht and built in 1882-85 for owners Schumacher & Ettlinger…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1885

    A fire guts the new building, needing twenty engines, and Raht rebuilds it

    Soon after the machinery was moved in, a fire started in the basement waste-paper room, which the Fire Department blamed on spontaneous combustion of oily rubbish. It took twenty engines to fight, residents of the Mott Street tenements were evacuated, and two five-ton water tanks fell through the roof of No. 34. Losses were about $350,000, $100,000 of it to the building, and Raht was hired to rebuild, using segmental arches in place of marble lintels on the Bleecker Street front.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1892

    Louis Ettlinger's firm becomes the American Lithographic Company

    Louis Ettlinger, born in Germany in 1846, came to the United States in 1866 and formed a lithography firm with Theodore Schumacher that became the American Lithographic Company in 1892. He also directed the Crowell Publishing Company and chaired the Persian Rug Manufactory. At his Peekskill estate he grew trees imported from around the world. The Landmarks Preservation Commission says he and Schumacher owned the building until 1903.

    “Ettlinger was also a director of the Crowell Publishing Co. and Chairman of the Board of the Persian Rug Manufactory.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  5. 2016

    May

    The old printing house becomes the Schumacher condominium, and actor Jonah Hill buys a unit

    After decades as a paper warehouse for firms such as Henry Lindemeyr & Sons and Aaronson Brothers, the building was bought by Stillman Development International for a $70 million conversion into 20 condominiums by Morris Adjmi Architects, named the Schumacher. In May 2016 actor Jonah Hill paid $9.16 million for a 3,280-square-foot apartment. Collector Alberto Mugrabi had contracted to buy two of its four triplex "mansions" for $18.6 million.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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