41 Bleecker Street
NoHo | built 1830
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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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- 1856
John Wurts sells the old Federal house at 41 Bleecker Street to Michael Gross
The house dates from about 1822-30 and was built for either Stephen Brinckerhoff or John Rathbone. John Wurts bought it in 1835 and lived there until 1856, when it passed by sale to Michael Gross. In 1869 Gross hired the builder Marc Eidlitz to raise it to three stories and add a rear extension. By 1880 the tenants were mostly immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Eastern Europe.
- 1924
Furrier Hyman Kaufman gives 41 Bleecker Street Art Deco facades and a fourth floor
Kaufman bought the building, by then a factory, in 1923 and hired Whinston & Hurwit the next year to add new front and rear walls and a fourth story. A panel in the parapet carries the year and his initials. Harry Hurwit also designed the Hin Sing Tong temple in Chinatown, and Kaufman's fur business used part of 41 Bleecker until 1931.
“Kaufman maintained his fur business in part of this building until he sold it in 1931.”
- 1940
Contractor Anthony Segalas buys 41 Bleecker Street and works from it into the 1960s
Segalas bought the building in 1940 and kept his contracting firm there into the 1960s. Other postwar tenants included garment makers, hatters, textile firms and importers. When loft dwellers began taking over the upper floors in the 1960s, the building was heading toward co-op conversion, which came in 1985.
“In 1940, the building was purchased by Anthony Segalas, who maintained his contracting firm at this location into the 1960s.”
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