175 2nd Avenue
also 245 East 11th Street, 179 2nd Avenue | East Village | built 1935
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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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- 1845
Peter Gerard Stuyvesant's mansion rises on the site
In 1845, a mansion is built here for Peter Gerard Stuyvesant, a descendant of the Dutch colonial governor. The house is converted into apartments in 1885, and by 1915 it becomes St. Mark's Hospital before eventually being demolished.
- 1935
Sugarman and Berger design an apartment building on the mansion's former site
After the old Stuyvesant mansion and its later incarnation as St. Mark's Hospital are demolished, architects Sugarman and Berger design a six-story brick apartment building for the Bowmark Realty Corporation, completed in 1935 at 175 Second Avenue. The new building also carries the addresses 243-245 East 11th Street.
Further reading
- 175 Second Avenue; 243-245 East 11th Street; 245 East 11th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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