23 Barrow Street
West Village | built 1872
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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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- 1872
William Jose designs a five-story French flat at 23 Barrow Street for Julius Wesslan
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Julius Wesslan commissioned architect William Jose to put up a small Italianate apartment house on Barrow Street in 1872. It came only three years after Richard Morris Hunt completed his pioneering apartment building for Rutherford Stuyvesant on East 18th Street. The Landmarks Preservation Commission counts it among the earliest French flats in the city, offering a respectable option to people who could not afford to rent or buy a whole house. A rusticated ground floor, arched windows and a bracketed cornice with a central pediment mark it, and the report calls the building virtually unchanged since it went up.
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- Then & Now photos: 23 Barrow StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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