71 Sullivan Street
also 69 Sullivan Street | SoHo | built 1897
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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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- 1897
Kurtzer & Rohl design a six-story Renaissance Revival tenement at 71 Sullivan Street for Michael and Edward Lapp
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Kurtzer & Rohl designed this six-story Renaissance Revival old-law tenement for Michael and Edward Lapp, and it went up in 1897 with shops on the ground floor. The cornice has modillions and dentils, and the window lintels are pedimented. Cast-iron piers flank the residential entrance, where the original wood door survives. Apart from the ground floor, the building remains largely intact.
- 1912
Photographer Lewis Hine documents child labor in tenements including 71 Sullivan Street
Roughly two decades after an 1892 smallpox report on nearby Sullivan Street tenements, the National Child Labor Committee's Lewis Hine photographed tenement flats in the district, 71 Sullivan Street among them. His pictures showed children sewing artificial flowers and other goods at home. Reformers used such work to push for tenement and child-labor laws.
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