21 Jones Street
West Village | built 1900
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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.
- 1842
Henry Frederick has a Greek Revival row house built at 21 Jones Street, with a four-story house behind it
Around 1842 Henry Frederick, who had owned the lot since 1833, had a three-story Greek Revival row house put up at 21 Jones Street. By the end of the century it had become a tenement for working-class residents, as happened to many early Village houses. A separate four-story house at the back of the lot, designed around 1871 by Charles Hadden for Henry Punchard, still stands out of sight from the street.
- 1922
21 Jones Street is converted into furnished rooms and given a new stucco front
The front building was turned into non-housekeeping apartments in 1922 and advertised as furnished rooms, the same year Max Strunsky became its owner. Skylights were added to the roof as part of the alteration. The commission believes the stepped parapet, the below-grade entrance in place of the stoop and a uniform stucco front over the four bays were probably added at that time; the stucco has since been removed.
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