14 Jones Street
West Village | built 1887
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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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- 1887
Charles Rentz designs Queen Anne flats for twenty families at 14 Jones Street for the Donvan brothers
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In 1887 architect Charles Rentz designed a five-story block of French flats at 14 Jones Street, intended for twenty families. The owners were James V. and Silas J. Donvan. The brick facade is trimmed with stone and terra cotta, including terra-cotta tympana carved with shells above the fifth-story windows.
- 1887
The architect of 14 Jones Street, a former beer dealer, also designs Webster Hall
Charles Rentz was born in New York to a German cigar manufacturer and appeared in an 1879 directory as a beer dealer. He was recorded as an architect in the 1880 census and in directories from 1882. Through the 1880s he turned out many flats and tenements, though Webster Hall and its annex on East 11th Street, built in 1886-87, was the most famous thing he designed in those years. In the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II he is credited with the French flats at 14 Jones Street.
“Rentz was listed in an 1879 city directory as a beer dealer, then as an architect in the 1880 New York census…”
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