557 8th Avenue

also 300 West 38th Street, 302 West 38th Street | Hudson Yards | built 1900

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1903
Emery Roth's firm designs an Art Nouveau building at 557 Eighth Avenue
In 1903 the firm Stein, Cohen and Roth, with Emery Roth as its designer, replaced a one-story building at Eighth Avenue and 38th Street with a three-story structure that city plans called a "dwelling and office." Cream-colored brick is trimmed with carved brownstone, including maidens' heads under shells above brownstone garlands. It is one of only a handful of Art Nouveau buildings in Manhattan.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1919
October 28
The ground-floor saloon loses its liquor license as Prohibition begins
After jeweler Emil Moescher took his own life in 1908, his storefront became a saloon. John J. Quigley held its liquor license until October 28, 1919, when the Volstead Act brought Prohibition, and he later became a Prohibition agent. From 1930 to 1940 the United Cigar Stores Company leased the space as a tobacco shop.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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