23 Bank Street
West Village | built 1857
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1857
No. 23 Bank Street gains an extra story and a carved-bracket cornice later in the 1800s
Number 23 was built in 1856-57 as part of Linus Scudder and Henry Cathell's Italianate row, with segmental-arched doorways under curved eyebrow lintels and French windows on the parlor floor. Later in the nineteenth century a story was added, along with a roof cornice carrying carved brackets and a paneled fascia. That makes it taller than its neighbors at Nos. 25 and 27.
“No. 23 is similar to its neighbors to the west, except that an additional story was added later in the Nineteenth Century…”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 23 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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