23 Bedford Street

West Village | built 1828

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.

1828
John McDermott builds three peaked-roof Federal houses, Nos. 23, 25 and 27 Bedford
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Around 1828 John McDermott built three three-story Federal houses with peaked roofs on this stretch of Bedford Street, and No. 23 was one of them. As in much of the Village, the single-family house was later divided for working-class tenants: the 1880 census found three families and three boarders living in it.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1885
Architect C. E. Hadden adds a fourth floor and a pressed-brick front for Mary Godfrey
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In 1885 architect C. E. Hadden raised the house to four full floors for its owner, Mary L. Godfrey. It already had a store on the ground floor, and now received a pressed-brick facade with stone trim and cast-iron columns at street level. In 1939 architect Joseph Lau replaced the store with two apartments for owner Dario Ghiggeri and reworked the second and third floors into two apartments each.
“In 1885, the building, which by then included a store on the first story, was enlarged to four full stories by architect C. E. Hadden…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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