120 West 3rd Street

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1886
J. H. Valentine builds a Queen Anne tenement at 120 West 3rd Street for James O'Hare
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J. H. Valentine designed this five-story tenement for owner James O'Hare, with plans filed in 1884 and the building finished by 1886. Dogtooth brick courses, brownstone sills and carved lintels give the facade its Queen Anne character. The cellar and first story were turned into stores in 1963.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1910
Census records show several African-American families living at 120 West 3rd Street
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Greenwich Village's South Village had a Black community from the early nineteenth century, centered on Minetta Lane and nearby streets. A footnote in the designation report says 1910 census records show more than one African-American family at 118 and 120 West 3rd Street. The tenement here had been built only about twenty-five years before.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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