70 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1897

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

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1897
Joseph Buttenwieser has a six-story tenement built at 70 East 7th Street alongside 72 and 74
George F. Pelham designed this six-story tenement for the developer Joseph L. Buttenwieser, with construction filed in 1896 and completed in 1897. It went up at the same time as the buildings at 72 and 74 East 7th Street, though under a separate application. Pelham reused nearly identical Renaissance Revival fronts with terra-cotta ornament across his tenements in the district.
“This tenement was constructed at the same time as 72 and 74 East 7th Street, but under a separate new building application.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1897
Joseph Buttenwieser, who commissions 70 East 7th Street, is both a developer and a Jewish philanthropist
In 1897 Buttenwieser, the American-born son of German Jewish immigrants, commissioned this tenement. He had begun a fifty-year career as a real estate operator in the late 1880s, dealing in property and construction in Lower Manhattan and Midtown. The landmarks commission notes that his gifts also went to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, the Hebrew Technical Institute and the Citizens Union, and served as a trustee of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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