123 East 7th Street
East Village | built 1861
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1861
Astor heirs lease the lot to Samuel Bessey and Thomas Tripler, who build a tenement
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This lot was part of the original holdings of John J. Astor. In 1860 his heirs leased it to Samuel Bessey and Thomas E. Tripler, who put up the five-story Italianate tenement around 1861, together with the building next door at 125 East 7th Street. Tax records supply the construction date.
- 1937
Theodore Wolinnin buys the building and runs a funeral parlor on the ground floor
Wolinnin began renting 123 and 125 East 7th Street in 1926 and bought them in 1937. The ground story became a funeral parlor, and it was remodeled in 1938 with terra-cotta tile and ogee-arched openings for the stores. He kept the property through the 1960s, and a metal plaque on the wall still recalls the funeral parlor.
“…rented by Theodore Wolinnin beginning in 1926 and subsequently purchased by him in 1937. He used the ground story for a funeral parlor…”
Further reading
- 123 East 7th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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