21 9th Avenue

also 25 9th Avenue, 400 West 13th Street, 23 9th Avenue | West Village | built 1920

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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.

  1. 1845

    Philip Burrows builds four Greek Revival rowhouses at 21-27 Ninth Avenue on an heir of George Clinton's land

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    Around 1844-46 the lessee Philip Burrows built four Greek Revival rowhouses at 21-27 Ninth Avenue, on a plot that Elizabeth M. Tallmadge, an heir of George Clinton, had held since 1829 and who later married Joseph G. Taylor. The 1851 directory names a boot seller, John Hanna, among the residents. The elevated railroad was finished in front of the houses in 1869, and by 1876 each had a storefront.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1886

    Liquor dealer Patrick Skelly owns the houses at 21-25 Ninth Avenue, and his son becomes a brewery president

    In 1886 Patrick Skelly, one of the owners of the Centennial Brewery on West 14th Street, owned Nos. 21-25 and combined Nos. 21 and 23 for his wine and liquor business. After his death around 1909 his son Hugh P. Skelly carried it on here at least into the 1910s, and in 1914 Hugh was president of the Kips Bay Brewery.

    “In 1886, Patrick Skelly (also one of the owners of the Centennial Brewery at 409-411 West 14th Street [see], built in 1876) owned Nos. 21-25…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1923

    The National Hotel Supply Co. turns the Skelly houses into a drugstore and a wholesale meat market

    In 1922 the National Hotel Supply Co., run by William J. and Joseph A. McKinley, bought the three Skelly buildings, which still held apartments upstairs. Alterations in 1923-24 added metal canopies and made them a drugstore at No. 21 and a wholesale meat market with offices. William J. McKinley owned the properties until 1961, and McKinley meat firms stayed into the 1970s.

    “Alterations in 1923-24 included the installation of metal canopies and conversion of the three buildings into a drugstore (No. 21) and wholesale meat market…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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