143 Allen Street Now Protected By LPC

Photo by Emilio Guerra

The latest city building to get landmark designation from the LPC is a 180-year-old Federal-style row house at 143 Allen Street on the Lower East Side. According to the Villager it was built, along with five others, in 1830 by ship captain George Sutton.

Robert Tierney of the LPC said in a statement: “This remarkable, intact house has survived not only the test of time, but also the radical transformation of the Lower East Side into a dense immigrant neighborhood that came to be defined by scores of tenement buildings. It’s one of the few buildings remaining from the area’s first major wave of urban development."

The other five houses were torn down long ago, but number 141 actually made it to the 1980s, when it was sold to a group of artists (but later demolished).

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on February 26, 2010 5:09 PM

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JenChungsBaby

Death to the jerkoff who graffitied that building.

S.K.

What if said jerkoff were Cost or Revz? Wouldn't that enhance the building's historic value?

Jason B

I think the original town house building to the left of this one was still standing until recently. It must have been torn down to make way for that "Mama Spa" building. At least now the last one should be around for a while.

Greenpoint60

Mamma Spa, go there to see Mamma San and get your knob polished

Gwinny

Yes, it was standing until pretty recently... I'd say it was there until about 3 years ago, maybe even less. It wasn't as in good shape as the one above, but was clearly of the same period.

JacqueMehoff

went to chinatown over the weekend for the parade, the cops had the streets barricaded so we walked around.

There's a building like that on Henry street, off catherine, it's in bad shape but is getting renovated.

don't see stuff like this much.

Greenpoint60

Knowing that neighborhood, I wonder what goes on behind those curtins?

Greenpoint60

Jacque, next trip check out Oliver Street

Snoopy

Great that they saved the building but it looks like they did some serious renovation in the past beginning with the parlor floor windows and it appears by looking at the doorway that it had a stoop at one time.

With a little work they could make it into an EAR Inn East.