36 East 29th Street

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5-story Italianate residential building originally completed around 1860 as a 4-story townhouse over a raised English basement. It was purchased by the Pringle family in 1871, and by 1895 was being operated as a boarding house. Hester A. Booth purchased the house early in 1919. She quickly leased it to D. Wortmann, who announced his plans to alter the house “into bachelor apartments, with stores on the first floor.” The stoop was removed and a projecting two-story wooden storefront installed. A store and related offices were now in the lower floors with bachelor apartments on the upper floors.

The Edwardian storefront consists of narrow, black iron pillars defining narrow end bays and a wide show-window in the center, topped by a cornice. Brown brick piers frame the edges of both floor, but the ground-floor storefront itself has been further altered over the years. The upper floors are recessed, and clad in dark blue-grey wooden clapboard. Each floor has three windows, now in metal frames. The facade is crowned by a bracketed black metal roof cornice.

In 1935 “The New Student Theatre” briefly operated from the building. The ground floor is now occupied by StampWorx 2000 trophy shop.