156 1st Avenue
East Village | built 1900
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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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- 1898
George F. Pelham designs a dumbbell tenement for Tobias Krakouer
In 1898, architect George Frederick Pelham designed a six-story brick dumbbell tenement at 156 First Avenue for owner Tobias Krakouer. It was built in the same project as 158 and 160 First Avenue, and the three share an identical facade. No. 156 has a bracketed cornice, arched upper windows with keystones, and elaborate bracketed lintels with pediments on some lower floors.
Further reading
- 156 First AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 154 First AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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