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The Jarmulowsky Bank Building is a 12-story building on the
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. Located at Canal Street and
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, the Jarmulowsky Bank Building was built in 1912 and designed by architects William Lawrence Rouse and Lafayette A. Goldstone in the Beaux-Arts style. The building is clad with
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on its lower stories and
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on its upper stories.
Sender Jarmulowsky Alexander Jarmulowsky (1840-1912), better known as Sender Jarmulowsky, was a Russian Jewish banker who founded the Jarmulowsky Bank on the Lower East Side of New York in 1873. Life Jarmulowsky was born in the town of Grajewo, Russia (present-d ...
established the Jarmulowsky Bank in 1873. When
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broke out two years after the building was completed, there was a run on the bank, as German investors withdrew funds to send to relatives abroad, and the bank failed. Until 1990, the building had a tempietto (more precisely a
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) rising 50 feet to a dome ringed by eagles. It was modeled after the
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. According to local legend, the tempietto was added to ensure that the building would be taller than the nearby headquarters of the '' Jewish Daily Forward''. The building was renovated in 1990 by Sing May Realty and the tempietto destroyed. DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners announced plans in 2013 to convert the structure to a hotel. In 2014, the
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approved a replica tempietto, which was completed by the beginning of 2020. A luxury hotel, Nine Orchard, opened at the building in June 2022.


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* Lower East Side Commercial buildings in Manhattan Bank buildings in Manhattan Commercial buildings completed in 1912 History of immigration to the United States New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan 1912 establishments in New York City Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City {{Manhattan-struct-stub