22 Charles Street

West Village | built 1846

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

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1846
Financier Myndert Van Schaick, a former state senator, develops the row that includes No. 22
No. 22 belongs to the row of Greek Revival houses built in 1845-46 for Myndert Van Schaick. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes him as a wealthy former state senator who had married a niece of Mayor Philip Hone and lived at Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street. He sold the land to the carpenter Patrick Cogan, who built the houses.
“Mr. Van Schaick was a former State Senator, married the niece of Mayor Philip Hone, and was a wealthy man, with his residence on Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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