128 Bank Street
West Village | built 1837
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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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- 1837
Alderman Jacob G. Dyckman builds a row of three Greek Revival houses on Bank Street
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In 1837 Jacob G. Dyckman, an alderman of the Ninth Ward who had served the city government for more than forty years, built a row of three brick houses at Nos. 126 to 130 Bank Street. Each rose three stories over a basement, with low attic windows cut into the cornice fascia. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 Greenwich Village report calls the row perhaps one of the best preserved groups of Greek Revival houses in the city. No. 128 keeps the small cornices over its door and window lintels.
“…built in 1837 for Jacob G. Dyckman, a member of the ancient Dyckman family of New York City. Dyckman, an Alderman of the Ninth Ward and a Commissioner…”
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- Then & Now photos: 128 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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