18 Christopher Street

West Village | built 1827

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1827
Carpenter Daniel Simonson builds the twin houses at 18 and 20 Christopher Street
In the early years of Greenwich Village's boom, builder Daniel Simonson put up two little two-story buildings at Nos. 18 and 20, finished in 1827 and faced in brick. Their side entrances have fanlights and slender columns, and each has broad grouped dormers that the AIA Guide called "superdormers". Before 1900 both were given shop fronts on the ground floor.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1933
June
Photographer P. L. Sperr records that the pair are prized for their quaintness
In June 1933 the photographer P. L. Sperr took a picture of Nos. 18 and 20 and wrote on the back that they were especially prized for their quaintness. By then the houses had wood-and-glass shop fronts under small hoods, and a store with apartments above. A photo the next year shows shutters on the second floors and the big dormers beginning to sag.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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