17 Greenwich Avenue

West Village | built 1890

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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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  1. 1890

    Franklin Baylies designs 17 Greenwich Avenue for John Goerlitz as one of two matching flats

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    John Goerlitz had architect Franklin Baylies design two identical five-story brick apartment houses in 1890, Nos. 17 and 19 Greenwich Avenue, in the free classic version of Queen Anne style. Each has shops at street level, and the floors above remain unaltered. Terra cotta panels separate the outer windows of the third and fourth floors, and the fourth-floor windows have pediments.

    “These identical brick apartment houses were built in the free classic manner of the Queen Anne Style in 1890 for John Goerlitz. They were designed by Franklin Baylies…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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