23 Bethune Street

West Village | built 1939

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

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1836
Builders put up No. 23 Bethune Street in 1836 as a Greek Revival twin to No. 25
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The Greenwich Village Historic District report says No. 23 went up in 1836 together with No. 25, part of a speculative row of six houses on the block's south side. It was later raised to three full stories and given a basement entrance, which replaced the original doorway with windows. A dentiled cornice with console brackets was added to its top at a later date.
“No. 23 was built in 1836 together with No. 25. ... raised to a three full stories, and altered to provide basement entrances…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1932
Walker Evans lives in the basement at 23 Bethune Street and shares the ground-floor workshop
In the early 1930s the photographer Walker Evans lived in the basement of 23 Bethune Street, in the same house as Ben Shahn and Moses Soyer, who each kept an apartment there. Evans, the painter and photographer Lou Block and the film critic Jay Leyda also used the workshop on the ground floor.
Source: Village Preservation

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