Former chair factory, 49-51 Elizabeth Street
49 Elizabeth Street | Little Italy | built 1900
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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.
- 1888
A six-story Richardsonian Romanesque chair factory is built at 49-51 Elizabeth Street in 1888
By the mid-nineteenth century the neighborhood had become a center of furniture manufacture, and large loft factories rose on Canal, Mott, Elizabeth and nearby streets. The survey cites the chair factory at 49-51 Elizabeth Street as a classic example of the Richardsonian Romanesque in industrial form. Its six stories are brick and brownstone with a cast-iron front, and a molded plaque on the facade records the year of construction as 1888.
“A classic example is the former chair factory at 49-51 Elizabeth, a six-story brick and brownstone factory with cast iron front…”
Source: National Register nomination
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