108 7th Avenue South
also 72 Christopher Street | West Village | built 1925
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1925
William H. Kaiser designs a three-story taxpayer for John H. Friend on a halved apartment-house site
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William H. Kaiser designed this three-story building for John H. Friend, who had it erected in 1925. It has a restaurant at street level and a second entrance at 72 Christopher Street. The lot was once occupied by a five-story apartment house, which the widening of Seventh Avenue South sliced in half. The 1969 district report calls the result ungainly and out of keeping with the low buildings on either side.
“It was erected in 1925 and designed by William H. Kaiser for John H. Friend.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 72 Christopher Street (aka 108 Seventh Avenue South)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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