20 Cornelia Street

West Village | built 1871

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

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1871
Retired grocer Henry H. Haight, who owns 18 and 20 Cornelia Street, wins a seat in the state assembly
Henry H. Haight built the pair of tenements at 18 and 20 Cornelia Street in 1871 and kept them until 1903. He had left the grocery trade before 1870, served as president of the Union Association of the Seventeenth Ward in the later Civil War years, and later led the Tenth Assembly District Republican Association. Voters sent him to the state assembly in 1871; by 1880 the census listed him as an insurance agent, and he later sat on the boards of two financial companies.
“In 1871 he was elected to a seat in the state assembly representing the tenth district.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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