Germania Fire Insurance
Begin Exploring this SiteDescription: Now a residential building, Germania Fire Insurance's Kleindeutschland branch provided protection for German-Americans during the "age of great urban fires."
Closest Address: 357 Bowery, Manhattan, NY 10003, USA
Suggested time to explore: 0 hr 10 min
References and Photo Credits
Colby College WWI collection, postcards from the Great War. I Like Dogs, But Not This Breed. http://www.sarahfrisk.com/PostcardsFromTheGreatWar/?p=1094
Landmarks Preservation Commission. (2010, March 23). Designation list 427, Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building; main façade 1939 & 1984 [photographs]; main façade 1979 [photograph] (Ingo Swann, photographer); main façade 2010 [photograph] (Christopher D. Brazee, photographer). http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/germaniafinal.pdf
Library of Congress. Germania fire insurance company. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02215
Library of Congress. The great fire of the city of New York, 16 December 1835. (1836, April 18). http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.01587
The New York Times. Carl Pfeiffer’s death. (1888, April 29). http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60715FE395413738DDDA00A94DC405B8884F0D3
The New York Times. Drops name Germania. (1918, March 1). http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940DE7DA113FE433A25752C0A9659C946996D6CF
NYPL Digital Gallery. Home Insurance Company, No. 135 Broadway, New York. Image ID: 806047. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?806047
Wikipedia. 357 Bowery. Beyond My Ken, photographer. (2011, March 30). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:357_Bowery.jpg
Wikipedia. View of the Great Fire in N.York, Dec. 16th & 17, 1835, as seen from Williamsburg (sic). Calyo, Nicolino, artist. (c. 1835). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1835_Great_Fire_of_New_York.jpg
