24 Bethune Street

West Village | built 1905

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
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. 1845

    No. 24 Bethune Street is built in 1844-45 as one of six Greek Revival houses, and later loses its stoop

    The Greenwich Village Historic District report dates No. 24 to a row of six three-story houses put up in 1844-45, built in two groups. The builder Alexander R. Holden, who owned two of the lots, was among those involved in putting them up. No. 24 and No. 34 were later changed to basement entrances, so the stoops that the other houses kept are gone from these two.

    “The houses were built in two groups, Nos. 30-34 and 24-28. ... Alexander R. Holden, a builder, who owned two of the lots, was involved…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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