224 West 4th Street

also 73 Christopher Street, 75 Christopher Street, 226 West 4th Street | West Village | built 1932

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The lot about 1940
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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.

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  1. 1917

    November 15

    The Greenwich Village Theatre opens at 220 West 4th Street for Frank Conroy's Greenwich Village Players

    An earlier building on this corner site, the Greenwich Village Theatre opened on November 15, 1917, at Sheridan Square where West 4th Street meets Seventh Avenue. Herman Lee Meader designed the intimate house, which seated about 450. It was built for the Greenwich Village Players of the actor Frank Conroy. The theatre stood here until it closed for the last time in 1930.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1919

    July 15

    The Greenwich Village Follies premieres in the theatre that stood on this site

    On July 15, 1919, the revue The Greenwich Village Follies opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre, an earlier building on this site. The theatre historian Thomas Hischak later described it as the first Off-Broadway musical to win broad recognition in the city.

    “The Greenwich Village Follies of 1919 premiered at the GVT on July 15, 1919.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1922

    February 19

    The International Composers' Guild gives its first concerts in the theatre that stood on this site

    From February 19 to April 23, 1922, the Greenwich Village Theatre, an earlier building on this site, was the venue for the opening season of the International Composers' Guild, a society devoted to new music. The guild moved to the Klaw Theatre for its second season.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1930

    The Greenwich Village Theatre is demolished after thirteen years, and a taxpayer building soon replaces it

    The Greenwich Village Theatre, which had stood on this site since 1917, was demolished in 1930 and soon replaced by a two-story taxpayer building. Village Preservation notes that the original plan was to put a 19-story apartment house here and suggests the Great Depression played a role in derailing it.

    Source: Village Preservation

  5. 1932

    Phelps Barnum designs a corner shopping building for Crisenfor, Inc. at Seventh Avenue South and West 4th Street

    The corner building, also numbered 73-75 Christopher Street and 220-224 West 4th Street, was built in 1932 for Crisenfor, Incorporated, to designs by Phelps Barnum. Its design plays horizontals against verticals, with corner pavilions and an ornamented parapet, and shops fill the ground floor. The Seventh Avenue South corner was remodeled to house a branch of the West Side Savings Bank.

    “This corner brick taxpayer was built in 1932 for Crisenfor, Incorporated, by Phelps Barnum…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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