20 Commerce Street

also 56 7th Avenue South | West Village | built 1854

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

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1852
A four-story wood workshop goes up and later becomes a hotel
William J. Brown and Isaac Parker had a plain four-story building put up at Nos. 20-22 Commerce Street between 1852 and 1854, and it first served as a wood workshop. Over the years it was heavily altered. In the 1920s it was converted to a hotel, and its arched doorway, a reminder of Italianate style, is its most notable feature.
“…erected in 1852-54, for William J. Brown and Isaac Parker, and was originally used as a wood workshop ... converted to a hotel in the Nineteen-twenties.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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