158 West 10th Street
also 184 Waverly Place | West 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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- 1855
Ringgold's 1855 house at 158 West 10th Street keeps its original stoop ironwork
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No. 158 West 10th Street is one half of a pair that the architect James P. Ringgold designed in 1855 and that share a single stoop. A 1969 landmarks survey of the Village notes the doorways' common lintel and brick reveals, windows with small corniced lintels and sash divided by a broad central muntin to imitate casements. The original cast-iron stoop railings with finialed newel posts survive.
“Both houses were designed by James P. Ringgold in 1855. The doorways have a common lintel and brick reveals. ... retained their handsome original cast iron railings at the stoop…”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 184 Waverly Place (aka 154 West 10th Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
- Identifying an eerie drugstore in a 1927 paintingEphemeral New York
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