131 Bank Street

also 733 Washington Street | West Village | built 1899

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1845
A grocer and a carman build four Greek Revival houses, one on the site of 733 Washington Street
In 1845 Charles Crane, a grocer who lived and traded across the street, and David Ramsey, a carman, developed a row of four brick houses on Washington Street. Both took advantage of the 1844 auction sale of Richard Halliday's estate. One of the four stood where the five-story apartment house at 733 Washington Street, also numbered 131 Bank Street, stands today; the other three remain as Nos. 735 to 739. This was an earlier building on the site.
“Originally the row consisted of four houses, including one on the site of the present apartment house, No. 733.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1899
Charles Rentz designs a five-story apartment building with a store for Mrs. Kate Regan
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The corner building at 733 Washington Street and 131 Bank Street went up in 1899 for Mrs. Kate Regan, with a storefront below and apartments above. Architect Charles Rentz mixed classical details, including garlands on the cornice between the fourth and fifth floors, with round-arched Romanesque windows on the top story. The Landmarks Preservation Commission called it a transitional building in its 1969 Greenwich Village report.
“…built for Mrs. Kate Regan in 1899. The architect, Charles Rentz, incorporated various classical motifs in this transitional building…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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