NOHO HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION Designation Report
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NOHO HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION Designation Report New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission May 13, 2008 Cover photograph: 48-52 Great Jones Street (A.V. Porter, 1896-97). Carl Forster, 2008. NOHO HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION Designation Report Essay by Marianne S. Percival and Kathryn Horak Building Descriptions and Architects’ and Builders’ Appendix by Marianne S. Percival Editorial Assistance by Jay Shockley and Virginia Kurshan Research Assistance Christopher Brazee, Amanda Davis and Theresa Noonan Research Department Mary Beth Betts, Director Photographs by Carl Forster, Marianne S. Percival and Jennifer Most Map by Jennifer Most Commissioners Robert B. Tierney, Chair Pablo E. Vengoechea, Vice-Chair Stephen F. Byrns Christopher Moore Diana Chapin Margery Perlmutter Joan Gerner Jan Hird Pokorny Roberta Brandes Gratz Elizabeth Ryan Roberta Washington Kate Daly, Executive Director Mark Silberman, Counsel Sarah Carroll, Director of Preservation TABLE OF CONTENTS NOHO HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION MAP ......................................................................1 TESTIMONY AT THE PUBLIC HEARING .................................................................................2 BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION........................................................................................................2 SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................4 THE HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOHO HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION Early History and Colonial Development of the NoHo Extension .....................................6 The Federal and Greek Revival Period................................................................................7 Increasing Development in the Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century.......................................9 The Development of Social, Cultural and Civic Institutions.............................................10 The Late-Nineteenth Century and Early-Twentieth Centuries: Store and Loft Development......................................................................................................................12 Post-Consolidation Growth................................................................................................15 Development in the Early Twentieth Century ...................................................................16 The Bowery: Flophouses, Slop Joints and Entertainment .................................................17 The Great Depression and the World War II Years...........................................................18 The Post World War II Period ...........................................................................................19 Recent History and Current Architectural Character.........................................................21 FINDINGS AND DESIGNATION ...............................................................................................23 BUILDING ENTRIES Bleecker Street, Nos. 51-53 ...............................................................................................25 Bond Street, Nos. 17-51.....................................................................................................25 Bond Street, Nos. 18-54.....................................................................................................40 Bowery, Nos. 330-344 .......................................................................................................54 Bowery, Nos. 354-356 .......................................................................................................62 East 4th Street, Nos. 26-38 .................................................................................................65 East 4th Street, Nos. 25-27 .................................................................................................73 Great Jones Street, Nos. 21-57...........................................................................................75 Great Jones Street, Nos. 12-54...........................................................................................94 Lafayette Street, Nos. 337-353 ........................................................................................102 Lafayette Street, Nos. 357-371 ........................................................................................103 Lafayette Street, Nos. 375-379 ........................................................................................104 ARCHITECTS' AND BUILDERS' APPENDIX.........................................................................105 ILLUSTRATIONS ............................................................................................Following page 119 NoHo Historic District Extension NoHo Historic District Extension B orough of Manhattan, NY Landmarks Preservation Commission Calendared: January 15, 2008 Public Hearing: March 18, 2008 Designated: May 13, 2008 25 27 E 4 St NoHo & NoHo East Historic Districts 26 38 Tax Lots NoHo & NoHo East HDs NoHo 356 NoHo Historic District Extension Historic District 354 Tax Lots in NoHo HD Extension 379 12 54 E 3 St W 3 St Great Jones St 21 57 344 Bowery Broadway Lafayette St ShinboneAl 330 18 54 E 2 St Bond St 17 51 Manhattan Jones Al NoHo East Historic District E 1 St 337 Bleecker St 51 53 Elizabeth St NoHo Historic District Extension Mott St Mulberry St Brooklyn CrosbySt 0.03 E Houston St Miles Graphic Source: New York City Department of City Planning, MapPLUTO, Edition 06C, 2006. Date: May 13, 2008. Landmarks Preservation Commission May 13, 2008, Designation List 403 LP-2287 TESTIMONY AT THE PUBLIC HEARING On March 18, 2008, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the NoHo Historic District Extension (Item No.4). The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of law. Sixteen witnesses spoke in favor of the designation as proposed, including representatives of City Councilmembers Alan Gerson and Rosie Mendez, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, State Senator Thomas Duane, Manhattan Community Board 2, the Historic Districts Council, the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and the Municipal Art Society, as well as residents, neighbors and their representatives. Many of these speakers expressed interest in expanding the boundaries to include additional properties not within the proposed extension. Six owners and/or their representatives (a total of fifteen speakers) were opposed to including their properties in the district extension. The Commission also received many letters in support of the proposed designation. The majority of these letters favored the inclusion of additional properties. The Real Estate Board of New York wrote in favor of a smaller extension, requesting the omission of nineteen properties on East 4th Street, Great Jones Street and the Bowery. The owner of No. 342 Bowery wrote in opposition to the inclusion of this building in the extension. NOHO HISTORIC DISTRICT EXTENSION BOUNDARIES The NoHo Historic District Extension consists of the property bounded by a line beginning at the northwest corner of Lafayette Street and Bleecker Street, then extending northerly along the western curbline of Lafayette Street to a point on a line extending westerly from the northern property line of 375-379 Lafayette Street (aka 12-28 Great Jones Street), easterly along said line and the northern property line of 375-379 Lafayette Street (aka 12-28 Great Jones Street), northerly along part of the western property line of 30 Great Jones Street, northerly along the eastern building line of 383-389 Lafayette Street (aka 22-26 East 4th Street) and continuing northerly across East 4th Street, northerly along the western property line of 25 East 4th Street, easterly along the northern property lines of 25 and 27 East 4th Street, southerly along the eastern property line of 27 East 4th Street to the southern curbline of East 4th Street, easterly along the southern curbline of East 4th Street to a point on a line extending northerly from the eastern property line of 38 East 4th Street, southerly along said line and the eastern property line of 38 East 4th Street, easterly along part of the northern property line of 48-52 Great Jones Street, northerly along the western property lines of 354 and 356 Bowery, easterly along the northern property line of 356 Bowery to the western curbline of the Bowery, southerly along the western curbline of the Bowery to a point on a line extending easterly from the southern property line of 354 Bowery, westerly along said line and part of the southern property line of 354 Bowery, southerly along part of the eastern property line of 48-52 Great Jones Street, easterly along the northern property line of 54 Great Jones Street, southerly along the eastern property line of 54 Great Jones Street to the southern curbline of Great Jones Street, easterly 2 along the southern curbline of Great Jones Street to a point on a line extending northerly from the eastern property line of 57 Great Jones Street, southerly along said line and part of the eastern property line of 57 Great Jones Street, easterly along the northern property line of 344 Bowery to the western curbline of the Bowery, southerly along the western curbline of the Bowery, westerly along the northern curbline of Bond Street to a point on a line extending northerly from the eastern property line of 51 Bond Street, southerly along