25 Bank Street

West Village | built 1857

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

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1856
The lot of Nos. 25 and 27 is the play area of the Peugnet brothers' boys' academy
Before Nos. 25 and 27 were built, their lot served as a play area for the Peugnet Academy, a boys' school run by the French brothers Louis and Hyacinthe Peugnet. They had been officers in Napoleon's army at Waterloo and, the report says, were involved in a plot to rescue him from Elba. The brothers sold the land to Scudder and Cathell in the spring of 1856.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1857
No. 25 Bank Street shows the Scudder-Cathell row's original look, with a high stoop and wreath ironwork
Linus Scudder and Henry Cathell built No. 25 in 1856-57 with its neighbor No. 27. The report calls these two the best examples of how the row first looked. Three stories over a smooth-stuccoed basement, the house has a high, wide stoop with cast iron railings in a wreath motif. The outer doors are the carved originals.
“The original appearance of these houses is best seen at Nos. 25 and 27.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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