117 Bank Street
West Village | built 1884
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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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- 1884
Architect William F. Niebuhr designs No. 117 Bank Street as the first of three apartment houses for John Schreyer
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In 1884 John Schreyer commissioned the architect William F. Niebuhr to design No. 117 Bank Street together with Nos. 119 and 121, three apartment buildings of different widths. Each is five stories over a basement, with brick stoops rising to arched doorways. A single elaborate cornice with oversized brackets runs across all three and ties them together.
“Designed in 1884 by William F. Niebuhr, architect, for John Schreyer, these three apartment buildings, of different widths, are five stories high with basements.”
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- Then & Now photos: 117 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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