242 East 5th Street

East Village | built 1845

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

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1845
Merchants Elisha Peck and Anson Phelps build a pair of row houses at 242 and 244 East 5th Street
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Around 1844-45 the merchant partners Elisha Peck and Anson G. Phelps put up two three-story brick row houses at 242 and 244 East 5th Street, and Phelps is recorded as the original owner of this one. The pair was part of the partners' string of speculative houses on the south side of the block. They had earlier built five houses at nos. 232 to 240 (about 1830-31), and in these same years they added six more at nos. 220 to 230.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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