81 Sullivan Street

SoHo | built 1835

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

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1835
A Federal-style brick row house goes up at 81 Sullivan Street around 1835
A Federal-style row house with Flemish-bond brickwork was built here around 1835. Its architect and first owner have not been determined. The Landmarks Preservation Commission later recorded that the central commercial entrance and the southern residential entrance remain at their historic locations, and that the commercial door appears to be original.
“This former federal row house with Flemish-bond brickwork was built c. 1835.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1857
Maps from 1857 to 1862 show a shop at 81 Sullivan, probably a bakery, before it becomes a tenement
City maps made between 1857 and 1862 mark this building as a first-class store, which the landmarks report takes to have been a bakery. The commission found it kept that use through the early and middle 1800s. By 1907 the old row house had been converted into a tenement, and a fourth floor and a pressed-metal cornice were added to the front.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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