11 Jones Street
West Village | built 1889
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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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- 1889
Carpenter Adam Munch designs a Romanesque Revival tenement for twenty families at 11 Jones Street
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Around 1889 Adam Munch, a carpenter from Germany, designed and built three tenements on Jones Street, of which number 11 was meant to house twenty families. Its facade mixes Romanesque and Renaissance Revival elements, with human faces carved into the keystones over the first-story windows. Munch appears in directories of 1887-88 as an architect, but census records list him as a carpenter, contractor or builder.
- 1900
The 1900 census finds Americans, French, Italians, Irish and a Turkish physician living at 11 Jones Street
Census takers in 1900 recorded a mixed set of tenants in the building: native-born Americans, French, Italian, English and Irish residents, and a physician from Turkey. By 1930 most tenants were Italian or Italian-American. Ownership passed to Giuseppe De Benedictis in 1901 and to Carmela De Benedictis in 1905.
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