16 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
Grocer Jedediah Lester owns the Greek Revival house at 16 Leroy Street for twenty years
The brick house went up around 1835 with two stories, a basement and an attic, and the landmarks report calls it an excellent example of the Greek Revival. Grocer Jedediah Lester owned it from 1835 until 1855. By the 1930s it had been converted into a tenement housing Italian immigrants and their children as well as one native New Yorker.
“…owned by grocer Jedediah Lester from 1835 until 1855…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1953
Our Lady of Pompeii Church buys the house and keeps it until 1970
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In 1953 the church of Our Lady of Pompeii bought 16 Leroy Street. It owned the house for seventeen years, until 1970. The building is now used as a multiple dwelling.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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