47 Prince Street
Nolita | built 2013
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1882
Walking-race celebrity George Noremac leases the saloon in an earlier building at 47 Prince Street
An earlier Federal-style building with a tall gambrel attic stood on this corner at Prince and Mulberry Streets. In March 1882 George D. Noremac, a Scottish long-distance walking racer known as the "King of the Peds," whose real surname was Cameron, took over the ground-floor saloon. He opened a second saloon on Eighth Avenue in 1883 and gave up the Prince Street lease in 1884.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1884
A brewery saloon, a cigar shop, a restaurant and a corner store succeed one another on the Prince and Mulberry corner
After Noremac left, the corner space in the earlier building held a Williamsburgh Brewing Co. saloon from 1884 until about 1894, then Samuel Cohen's cigar shop until 1901. Francesco Marchioni ran a restaurant there from 1901 to 1908, and Gaetano Mangano took over the lease in 1908 and probably turned it into a corner store. The shop was boarded up in 1924, and the upper floors appear to have been empty too.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1934
Berenice Abbott photographs the vacant earlier building at Prince and Mulberry Streets
The old Federal-style building at Prince and Mulberry Streets had stood empty since 1924 when the documentary photographer Berenice Abbott photographed it about ten years later. It lasted just over a century. A replacement building was demolished before the mid-1960s, and the present building on the site, designed by Kevin Byrne Architects, was completed in 2017.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- A Lost Relic - 47 Prince StDaytonian in Manhattan
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