69 Thompson Street
SoHo | built 1896
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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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- 1892
Herman Horenburger and Charles Straub, immigrant architects, partner on 69 Thompson Street and other district tenements
Herman Horenburger came from Germany to New York in 1883 and worked for several years as a draftsman before opening his own practice. Between 1892 and 1906 he teamed up with Charles M. Straub, who was born in Bavaria and arrived in 1882, and their firm became known for many tenement and loft designs. Their 1896 building at 69 Thompson Street is the earliest of the firm's works listed in the Sullivan-Thompson district.
“From 1892 to 1906 he partnered with Charles M. Straub in a firm known for its many tenement and loft designs.”
- 1896
Horenburger & Straub build a five-story brick tenement at 69 Thompson Street for De Rago and Nigo
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Raphael De Rago and Franck Nigo put up this five-story tenement in 1896, working from plans by the firm Horenburger & Straub. The red brick front carries dogtooth courses and dogtooth spandrel panels, a plain kind of decoration that recurs across the neighborhood. A fire escape went in when the building was erected.
“This old-law tenement was built in 1896 and designed by the firm Horenburger & Straub. It features red brick dogtooth belt courses…”
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