19 Barrow Street

West Village | built 1900

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

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1834
Stonecutter David Christie and carpenter John W. Christie build Nos. 19 and 21 Barrow Street
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In 1834 David Christie, a stonecutter, and John W. Christie, a carpenter, had Nos. 19 and 21 Barrow Street built for them. The Landmarks Preservation Commission reasoned that with such a pair of trades the Christies surely built the houses themselves. They were two-and-a-half-story Federal houses with dormers, and in 1925 they were raised to four stories and converted to apartments entered from the rear garden.
“They were built in 1834 for David Christie, stonecutter (No. 19) and for John W. Christie, carpenter (No. 21).”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1851
Daniel Adriance occupies the rear wing of No. 19 Barrow Street as a separate tenant by 1851
A wing at the back of No. 19 opens onto the rear courtyard through a Federal arched doorway. By 1851 it was occupied by a tenant of its own, Daniel Adriance. The Landmarks Preservation Commission cites this as an early example of a Greenwich Village town house being subdivided among separate households.
“It was occupied by a separate tenant, Daniel Adriance, even as early as 1851, an example of the subdivision of town houses at this early date.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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