A black and white sign on a building reads "97 Orchard Street, Built in 1883-64 by Lucas Glocker, a German-born tailor, 97 Orchard Street, New York, For millions of immigrants from scores of house constructed in tenement and others like as a place of first settlement in America. This is the first tenement to be individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the Interior Department. September, 1992."