23 East 3rd Street

East Village | built 1891

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

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1891
Fay and Stacom put up a five-story Queen Anne tenement planned for twenty families
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Michael Fay and William Stacom built 23 East 3rd Street in 1891 to plans by Charles Rentz Jr. The five-story house was meant to hold twenty families. Yellow brick rises over a rusticated brownstone ground floor, and a large entrance portico carries figural carving, with terra-cotta capitals and arched spandrels higher up.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org
1891
Architect Charles Rentz Jr., a cigar maker's son who also designed Webster Hall, draws the plans
Charles Rentz Jr. was born in New York to a cigar manufacturer from Wurttemberg, appeared in an 1879 directory as a beer dealer, and by the early 1880s was working as an architect. He designed many flats and tenements on the Lower East Side and in Greenwich Village, but his best-known commission was Webster Hall and its annex on East 11th Street. This tenement is a smaller job of the same kind.
“Charles Rentz was born in New York City, the son of Charles Rentz, Sr., a cigar manufacturer from Wurtemberg, Germany... his best known work was his design for Webster Hall…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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