A six-story, transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style tenement building was built in c. 1849-50 at a time when the SoHo area was declining as a prime residential neighborhood into a mixed-use district consisting of tenements, factories, stables, saloons, and gambling halls. The designs of the building’s brick façade include Greek Revival style details, such as projecting windowsills and stone lintels, as well as an Italianate-style wood cornice with scrolled brackets. A storefront with cast-iron columns and a steel beam was also built at that time. This apartment house, which remains in residential use on the upper floors, is evocative of the changes that took place in the SoHo area in the mid-nineteenth century as its small private dwellings were being replaced by tenement houses and factories.

The scope of work included partial reconstruction of the street façade as well as restorative work at the storefront level and at the rear façade of the building. Partial reconstruction of the street façade was required due to structurally compromised brick masonry initially observed during a condition survey & assessment of the premises prompted by the ongoing construction activities of the neighboring building to the North. borne out of a previous façade inspection & safety program report; conditions survey & assessment coupled with investigatory probes at select locations to fully understand the extent and impact of the conditions observed.

Primary Role – design and production of the exterior restoration & street façade reconstruction construction documents, Landmarks application, local building department filing drawings, review of material samples, mockups, and contract administration.