233 East 5th Street

East Village | built 1876

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About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1876

    D. & J. Jardine build 233 and 235 East 5th Street as a matched pair of brownstone apartment buildings for John C. Mahr

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    In 1876 John C. Mahr commissioned the firm D. & J. Jardine to build two five-story apartment buildings side by side, at 233 and 235 East 5th Street. The neo-Grec fronts of brownstone have beveled lintels, with gables over the first- and second-story windows, and a bracketed cornice with paneled frieze. The report treats the two as a pair, though later changes smoothed over the door and window surrounds at number 233.

    “Built as one in a pair with the adjacent building at 235 East 5th Street.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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