Lower East Side Tenement Museum & Orchard Street, New York Photos

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum (97 Orchard St.) is an accidental time capsule in that one landlord simply locked up his tenement building early in the 20th Century rather than comply with city regulations. Today, the apartments are being restored to reflect various decades and the ethnic immigrants who actually lived there in those periods. With its heritage buildings with their fire escapes, Orchard Street itself is a fairly well preserved context for the museum & should be toured as part of the experience.

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Lower East Side Tenement Museum (1863) (97 Orchard St.).	Entrance facade of Tenement Museum.	Heritage store exhibit on ground floor of Tenement Museum.	Country scene hand-painted on entrance hall wall covering at Tenement Museum.

Original ceiling covering at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen of Italian family (Baldizzi Apartment 1934) at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen table of Italian family (Baldizzi Apartment 1934) at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen stove of Italian family (Baldizzi Apartment 1934) at Tenement Museum.

Front room of Italian family (Baldizzi Apartment 1934) at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen of German family (Gumpertz Apartment 1874) at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen table of German family (Gumpertz Apartment 1874) at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen shelves with dishes of German family (Gumpertz Apartment 1874) at Tenement Museum.

Food storage crocks of German family (Gumpertz Apartment 1874) at Tenement Museum.	Rocking chair in front room of German family (Gumpertz Apartment 1874) at Tenement Museum.	Queen of Beauty framed graphic in front room of German family (Gumpertz Apartment 1874) at Tenement Museum.	Antiques awaiting placement in restored Tenement Museum.

Drop front desk in unrestored apartment at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen stove & shelf of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen crockery of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.	Dining table in front room of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.

Cruet set in front room of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.	Sofa in front room of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.	Kitchen sink of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.	Linoleum detail in kitchen of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.

Bedroom of Lithuanian family (Rogarshevsky Apartment 1918) at Tenement Museum.	Linoleum found in restoration of Tenement Museum.	Wallpaper found in restoration of Tenement Museum.	Tenant's record on wall of clothing produced as found in restoration of Tenement Museum.

Heritage building at corner of Orchard St. & Delancey.	Streetscape along Orchard St. reflects New York of old including Tenement Museum.	Hotel Blue Moon (100 Orchard St.).	Heritage building with orange fire escapes (261 Orchard St.).

Streetscape along Orchard St.	Elaborately decorated heritage brick walkup (87 Orchard St.).	Guss' Pickles (87 Orchard St.).	Heritage building with lions & fire escapes (75-79 Orchard St.).

Pink rounded corner heritage building (Orchard at Grand St.).	Orchard St. bargain shops on streetscape with Jarmulowsky's Bank building.	Heritage building with overhanging fire escape on Orchard St.	Public School 42 (71 Hester St. off Orchard St.).

Heritage building with green roofline (1871) (29 Orchard St.).	S. Jarmulowsky's Bank (c1912) (54-58 Canal St. at Orchard).	Relief artwork on S. Jarmulowsky's Bank.	Eldridge Street Synagogue & Museum (1887) (12-16 Eldridge St.). Style: Moorish. Architect: Herter Bros. On National Register.

Moorish-style stained-glass windows of Eldridge Street Synagogue & Museum.	Rose window & Gothic elements of Eldridge Street Synagogue & Museum.	Side doorway of Eldridge Street Synagogue & Museum.