40 MacDougal Street

SoHo | built 1904

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1904
Sass & Smallheiser build a six-story tenement at 40 MacDougal Street for John Brown
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Built in 1904 for John Brown, the six-story new-law tenement at 40 MacDougal Street has projecting bays and heavy terra-cotta ornament. Its scrolled keystones carry female busts and garlands, and a pressed-metal cornice shows acanthus leaves and floral pendants. The Landmarks Commission cites the egg-and-dart molding on the cornice and belt courses as typical of the Renaissance Revival, and found the building largely intact above the ground story.
“…designed by Sass & Smallheiser for John Brown and built in 1904…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1904
Samuel Sass and Max Smallheiser, tenement specialists, design 40 MacDougal Street
The architects of 40 MacDougal Street were Samuel Sass, born in Russia, and Max J. Smallheiser. Sass arrived in the United States with his parents in 1872 and had his own practice by 1893. In 1899 the two began a six-year partnership that produced mostly tenements and flats, and they also designed a synagogue in Brooklyn. Sass worked alone again from 1905 to 1916.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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