19 8th Avenue

West Village | built 1845

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

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1845
A distiller buys into the Eighth Avenue row built after the Townley estate sale
In 1845 the estate of Richard Townley was liquidated, and a block of Eighth Avenue that had been mostly empty was divided among a handful of buyers. Bradish Johnson, a distiller, owned Nos. 13, 15 and 19, along with land around the corner on West 12th Street. The three-story brick houses were planned with shops at street level and homes above, and the landmarks report calls them typical of the vernacular of the day.
“Bradish Johnson, a distiller, who owned Nos. 13, 15 and 19, as well as property on West Twelfth Street around the corner…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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