Peter Jarema Funeral Home

129 East 7th Street | East Village | built 1861

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.

1922
Peter Jarema buys 129 East 7th Street and establishes a funeral home
The tenement at 129 East 7th Street was first sold out of the Astor holdings in 1898, to Conrad Siemon. Peter Jarema bought it in 1922 and started a funeral home in the building, which dated from about 1861.
“The first sale of the building was to Conrad Siemon in 1898. It was purchased by Peter Jarema in 1922 who established the funeral home here…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1933
The storefront at 129 East 7th Street is removed and rebuilt as a funeral-home entrance
In 1933 the ground story of the tenement was reworked for the funeral home. The storefront was taken out, the front was refaced in brick, and the door and windows were relocated and edged with stone trim. A metal marquee hung from rods now shelters the ogee-arched entrance, the main change to an otherwise intact five-story Italianate front.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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