The most distinctive feature of Teddy’s Bar at 96 Berry Street is the projecting wood and sheet-copper corner storefront with a beautiful decorative-glass transom reading “Peter Doelger’s Extra Beer”. Portions of the storefront were rebuilt after a car crashed into it about 10 years ago, but most of it – and all of the decorative glass - dates to at least 1907. That stained-glass transom is the source of much of the mythology that surrounds 96 Berry, tying it to a 19th-century beer baron and a 20th-century Hollywood icon.

Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide: v. 36, no. 903: July 4, 1885, 774.

Real Estate Record documents 2 buildings (979 and 981 Lorimer).1 The building at 983 Lorimer Street appears to be part of the same development.

• 1. Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol 14, no. 348, November 14, 1874), 341.

Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol 14, no. 349, November 21, 1874), 348.

Source: Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol 14, no. 349, November 21, 1874), 348.

Berlenbach is listed as the builder, not the architect. No architect is listed.1

• 1. Real Estate Record & Builders' Guide (vol 14, no. 348, November 14, 1874), 341.