244 East 5th Street
East Village | built 1845
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1880
A Greek Revival row house at 244 East 5th Street is updated with Neo-Grec and Queen Anne details
The three-story row house at 244 East 5th Street went up around 1844-45 as a Greek Revival home for Anson Phelps. In the 1880s it gained fashionable Neo-Grec and Queen Anne features, including a bracketed metal lintel over the paneled entrance portico and a bracketed roof cornice crowned with a central gable and sunburst.
Further reading
- 244 East 5th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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