65 Spring Street

also 65B Spring Street, 65A Spring Street, 236E Lafayette Street | SoHo | built 1878

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

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1878
William E. Waring designs a five-story Italianate tenement for Henry Thole at 65 Spring Street
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Architect William E. Waring designed this five-story tenement, built in 1878 for Henry Thole with ground-floor shops. It rose when SoHo's fringes were filling with factories, warehouses and apartment buildings. Its facade has since been stripped and covered in cement stucco, and the shopfronts have been altered. The original cast-iron columns at street level, cast by Geo. H. Toop, are still in place.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1878
Families crowd into 65 Spring Street's apartments, with no indoor plumbing at first
The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts this 1878 tenement among the Italianate-style buildings of the 1870s that housed several families on each floor and had no indoor plumbing when new. It reads such buildings as a sign of the area's declining fortunes as commerce moved in.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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