14 Leroy Street

West Village | built 1835

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1835
Mason Henry Perrine builds a Greek Revival row house at 14 Leroy Street
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Around 1835 the mason Henry M. Perrine put up this house, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission attributes to him as builder and original owner. At the time this part of Greenwich Village was becoming a desirable neighborhood for middle- and upper-class New Yorkers. It was a brick row house of three bays, with a basement.
“No. 14 Leroy Street was constructed c. 1835 by mason Henry M. Perrine…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1872
The row house is raised a story and turned into a tenement
In 1872 the house was converted to a tenement. Architect Charles Wright added a third story, an extension at the back and Italianate pressed-metal cornices on front and rear. Another conversion in 1927, by architect Ferdinand Savignano, folded the basement into the first-floor apartment and lowered the entrance below street level; by the 1930s three Italian immigrant families and a boarder lived there.
“In 1872 no. 14 Leroy Street was converted into a tenement with the addition of a third story, a rear extension, and Italianate-style pressed-metal cornices…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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