9 Clinton Street

Lower East Side | built 1910

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1. 1850

   Bootmaker Francis Pape owns 9 Clinton Street and runs his shoe shop here

   The two-and-a-half-story house-and-store at 9 Clinton Street was built around 1849, most likely in the Greek Revival style. By 1850 bootmaker Francis Pape owned it and ran his boot and shoe business here, while his family lived on the upper floors. He used the ground floor of the four-story brick building in the rear yard as his shoemaking shop and rented its upper floors to tradesmen, including a varnisher and a carver in 1861.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1883

   The attic is raised to a full story with pressed-metal cornice swags

   G. H. and Charlotte F. Barnard bought 9 Clinton Street around 1883, and at about that time the low attic level was raised to a full story. The work added an intermediate cornice and a top cornice trimmed with pressed-metal swags. Both cornices had been removed by 2014, when the facade was painted.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1897

   A tenement doctor and a Hungarian-born minister are among the building's occupants

   Dr. B. Lefkowics rented space here by 1892 and, as newspapers of the time reported, treated poor families in the district's tenements. Another occupant in the 1890s was Adolf Tannenbaum, born in Hungary in 1841, who was minister of the Talmud Thora on East Fifth Street and of the Chasam Sofer Congregation on Clinton Street. He was also highly involved in the neighborhood's Hungarian community.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1950

   The Israel Parcel Service and Training Co. occupies the building's commercial space

   Around 1950 the commercial space here was occupied by STEIC, the Israel Parcel Service and Training Co., a Jewish-owned business that was an early counterpart of a United Parcel Service-style delivery firm. A photograph from 1938 shows the Palestine Theatre operating next door. A renovation in 1966 left stores in the basement and first floor, with one apartment on each of the two upper stories.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

5. 2010

   Culturefix opens as an art gallery and performance space at 9 Clinton Street

   Around 2010 an art gallery and performance space called Culturefix opened here, with changing exhibits and a menu of wine, beer and snacks. It stayed until 2014, by which time the facade had been painted and the two cornices removed. A later restoration stripped the paint from the brick and touched up the storefront.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The Francis Pape House-and-Store - 9 Clinton StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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