Greenwich Village Funeral Home

199 Bleecker Street | Greenwich Village | built 1925

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.

1912
Giovanni Battista Perazzo opens his own undertaking business at 199 Bleecker Street
Perazzo was born in Genoa and came to the United States at 13. He learned the funeral trade working for Charles Baciagalupo, who ran a funeral home on Mulberry Street, and later married Baciagalupo's sister Caroline. Moving to Greenwich Village, he started his own undertaking firm at 199 Bleecker in 1912, twelve years before the present building was put up on the lot in 1924-25. He died on September 12, 1950.
Source: Village Preservation
1925
Perazzo's six-story Neo-Renaissance tenement rises with a funeral church on the ground floor
Matthew W. Del Gaudio designed this six-story brick-and-cast-stone building in 1924-25 for Gianbatista Perazzo, with apartments above and a commercial ground floor. Stained-glass windows sit over the entrances. The storefront has housed the Perazzo Funeral Church, later called the Perazzo Funeral Home, and today the Greenwich Village Funeral Home.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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