121 East 10th Street

East Village | built 1899

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

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1842
April 1
Peter G. Stuyvesant sells the lot, with a ban on breweries and livery stables
On April 1, 1842, Robert Carnley bought the lots now numbered 121, 123 and 125 East 10th Street from Peter Gerard Stuyvesant for $3,125. The deed barred breweries, distilleries, slaughterhouses, forges, glue and soap works, livery stables and other noxious businesses for 20 years. The landmarks commission notes that such covenants usually ran forever, so a 20-year limit was unusual. Carnley built the pair of houses next door in 1854, and this lot was later built up with an apartment house.
“Stuyvesant sold the lots for 121, 123 and 125 East 10th Street to Robert Carnley, April 1, 1842 for $3,125... no brewery, distillery, slaughter house... for 20 years…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1899
Augustus Ruff builds a six-story apartment house beside the St. Mark's churchyard
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Architects Kurtzer & Rohl designed the building for Augustus Ruff in 1899, at an estimated cost of $20,000. Its first-floor windows and door are round-arched in the Romanesque Revival manner, while the upper floors turn to Neo-classical pedimented windows and a bracketed cornice. At six stories it rises well above its neighbors, which the landmarks commission's 1969 report singles out as a note of variety on the block.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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