EAST BROADWAY, NO. 113
Between Pike and Market Streets
MARCH 30, 1937. ABBOTT FILE 224

Abbott's eye was caught by this elaborate Greek Revival doorway, a relic of more elegant days on the Lower East Side. Abbott included no. 111 next door, which housed a Jewish manufacturer of trousers on the first floor and a construction company in the basement, illustrating the more typical fate of the neighborhood's oldest houses. No. 113 may have remained intact because it had belonged to the same family since 1871; in Abbott's day, it was the home and office of Frederick W. Huber, M.D.

No. 111 was torn down by 1939, but No. 113 probably survived until the post-1952 widening of Pike Street, which required the demolition of this corner of East Broadway.

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