108 West Houston Street

also 165 Thompson Street, 167 Thompson Street | Greenwich Village | built 1833

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1833
Edmund Wilkes builds a three-story row house at 108 West Houston that is raised to five stories by 1867
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Around 1833 Edmund Wilkes built a three-story row house here, the first of four houses numbered 108 to 114. It was raised to four stories about 1859 and to five about 1867, ending up in stripped Greek Revival and Italianate style. In the 1920s a one-story storefront extension was added, and the Italianate cornice has since been removed.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church keeps its headquarters and book concern at 108 West Houston in the 1870s
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The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church had its headquarters and book concern at 108 West Houston Street in the 1870s, and mission rooms were housed in the rear extension facing Thompson Street at number 167. The Landmarks Preservation Commission mentions the address in its account of African American life in the South Village before the early 1900s.
“In the 1870s, 108 West Houston Street/167 Thompson Street was the home of African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church headquarters and book concern…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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