Lorillard House

7 Bleecker Street | NoHo | built 1817

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1. 1817

   A brick house goes up at 7 Bleecker Street for a Roosevelt or Lorillard owner

   Houses on this stretch of Bleecker Street began with Nos. 4 to 8 in 1813, and a brick-faced house at No. 7 followed in 1816. It is unclear whether financier James Roosevelt or tobacconist George Lorillard built it, but Lorillard owned it by 1817. In 1821 Jared E. Barite signed a lease. The house was clad in Flemish bond brick, and by the 1830s it had boarders.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1855

   The Coster family raises the house to three stories and adds an Italianate cornice

   In 1854-55 owners Catherine and George W. Coster raised the Federal house by a story and gave it fashionable Italianate touches, among them a bracketed wooden roof cornice. The Landmarks Preservation Commission says the house was built as an investment property. Early residents included a physician, P. F. Clark, and a dentist, A. W. Jones. By the late nineteenth century it was a multiple dwelling, occupied mainly by immigrants from Germany and Poland.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

3. 1898

   Furriers move into 7 Bleecker Street as the fur trade centers on the neighborhood

   In 1898 a Chinese laundry occupied the first floor and the building's first furrier, Max Schwartz, took space. In 1901 J. & L. Feldman made fur tails here, and a fur robbery was reported on December 19, 1903. Furriers kept leasing space through the 1920s, with as many as eight firms here in 1917.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1976

   Photographer Robert Frank rents an apartment at 7 Bleecker Street and later buys the building

   The Robert Frank Foundation's chronology lists the move under 1976: the photographer rented an apartment at 7 Bleecker Street and later bought the property. From then on he spent part of each year in Mabou, Nova Scotia, and part at Bleecker Street. He had married the artist June Leaf in 1975, two years after leaving 184 Bowery to live year-round in Mabou.

   Source: robertfrankfoundation.org

Further reading

• The 1817 Lorillard House -- No. 7 Bleecker StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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