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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Captured in Glass
The Tenement at 97 Orchard Street
In 1825, there was a Dutch Reformed Church where 97 Orchard stands today.

Active till 1834, the Dutch congregation gave way to the Second Universalist Society of New York, which would hold religious services on Orchard Street until 1859. In that year, the Society decided to move their Church as the neighborhood had "become undesirable" with the influx of German and Irish immigrants.

Four years later, Lucas Glockner would build the tenement building that now stands at 97 Orchard Street.

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