5 Things You Didn’t Know About 97 Orchard Street

1. 7,000 people from 20 countries lived at 97 Orchard Street from 1863-1935.
2. The Museum has identified over 1,900 by name.
3. 97 Orchard Street is a pre-Old Law tenement.
4. The German immigrant who built it lived there from 1863-1868.
5. The first tenants were mainly from Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, and Hanover.