15 Bank Street

West Village | built 1852

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.

1836
The Peugnet brothers open their boys' academy on the lot where No. 15 Bank Street later stands
Louis and Hyacinthe Peugnet, two Frenchmen who had emigrated, ran a boys' school in New York with General Lafayette's patronage. After several earlier locations, they opened the academy in 1836 on the site now occupied by No. 15 Bank Street. They stayed until they moved the school to No. 27 Bank Street. This was an earlier use of the lot, before the present house was built in 1852.
“…they opened the Academy on the site of No. 15 Bank Street in 1836 and remained there until they moved the school to No. 27…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1852
Reuben Wood's 1852 house at No. 15 Bank Street later gains a tall parapet and a basement entrance
Builder Reuben R. Wood put up No. 15 in 1852 for Theodore R. Riley, as the twin of No. 13. It is brick over a stone basement, and it still has its rusticated stonework. Over the years a high stone-capped parapet was added, making it taller than neighboring No. 11, and a basement doorway replaced the stoop and parlor-floor entrance.
“A basement entrance, with a doorway in classical style, has taken the place of the stoop and parlor flour entrance (on the left side of the house) at No. 15…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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