The building at 144–146 Bleecker Street in New York City's Greenwich Village was originally built in 1832 as two rowhouses.

[citation needed] As architecture historian Christopher Gray wrote, At some point, Mori befriended a novice architect, Raymond Hood, gave him a house tab and an apartment upstairs and in 1920 had him design a new facade for the building to include 146 Bleecker.

Hood gave the buildings a row of Doric columns across the first floor, imitation Federal lintels over the windows and a setback penthouse studio.

[1]The restaurant began as a small bar and eatery and expanded to fully occupy a "rambling, old-fashioned" five-story[3] building near Sixth Avenue (Manhattan).

[3] Mori's gravesite in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx is marked with a sculpted memorial designed by Hood and sculptor Charles Keck.