247 Bleecker Street

West Village | built 1828

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1828

    Lewis Richards has a house built on three-quarters of a lot that passes through five more owners by 1836

    Lewis Richards, with Patrick Doherty, held the lot in 1828 when the Federal house went up, and by 1829 it had passed to James Walsh and Henry A. Wells. Owners then changed rapidly: James Wells in 1830, David S. Jones in 1832, John Millar in 1834 and Jeremiah Van Rensselaer in 1836. By the 1850s the house was in mixed use.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1926

    Leon Michelini has the three-story shop and dwelling raised to four stories

    By 1926 the building was a store with a two-family dwelling above. That year Leon Michelini bought it and hired Richard L. Lukowsky for a renovation that raised it to four full stories. Building applications filed in 1998 for a construction shed suggest that the facade was repaired around then.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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