23 Christopher Street

West Village | built 1827

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

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1827
Samuel Whittemore builds No. 23 Christopher Street in 1827 as one of a row of ten houses
Nos. 23 and 25 survive from a row of ten houses that Samuel Whittemore put up in 1827 as a real estate investment. Whittemore was senior partner of S. Whittemore & Company, textile card manufacturers, and owned a good deal of Village property. He still lived on lower Broadway in 1827, and later built a large mansion at 45 Grove Street.
“Whittemore was the senior partner of S. Whittemore & Company, textile card manufacturers. He was a substantial property owner in The Village…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1913
Sarah Switzer buys Nos. 23 and 25 Christopher Street and plans an annex for her institute
Dressmaker Sarah Switzer opened a home and school for working girls at 27 Christopher Street in 1911 and, within two years, had bought the neighboring houses at Nos. 23 and 25. About a month afterward, on November 15, 1913, the Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide reported that the architect Jobst Hoffman was at work on an annex that would cost $4,000.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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