95 5th Avenue

Union Square | built 1900

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

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1890
Impressionist Childe Hassam keeps a studio at 95 Fifth Avenue, in the building that stood here before
Childe Hassam, the American Impressionist known for his rainy Union Square scenes, had a studio at 95 Fifth Avenue during the 1880s and 1890s. The present building went up only in 1900, so his studio was in the five-story rowhouse that stood on the site before it. This was an earlier building on the site.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1900
Robert Maynicke builds a nine-story Beaux-Arts loft on the corner for Henry Corn
Erected in 1899-1900 for the developer Henry Corn, this buff-brick building at Fifth Avenue and East 17th Street was designed by Robert Maynicke, one of the district's busiest architects. It replaced a five-story rowhouse. Its first occupants fit the district's usual mix of trades: curtain dealers, a publisher, upholsterers and a cloak-and-suit firm.
“Early tenants of this store and loft building were characteristic of the district and included lace curtain merchants, a publisher, upholsterers, and a cloak and suit merchant.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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