15 Gay Street
West Village | built 1844
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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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- 1844
Thomas Cumming builds a row of two-story Greek Revival houses, including 15 Gay Street
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In 1844 Thomas Cumming built a row of four brick houses on this side of Gay Street, each two stories with an attic over a stone basement; No. 15 was one of them, and the fourth was later torn down. Its stoop handrails sweep outward and end in volutes, perhaps meant for newel posts like those at Nos. 9 and 11. The dentiled Greek Revival roof cornices survive on the row.
“The handrails at No. 15 are swept outward and end in volutes, perhaps in - tended to meet newel posts, as at Nos. 9 and 11.”
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- Then & Now photos: 15 Gay StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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