25 Barrow Street

West Village | built 1826

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

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1826
Mason Jacob Shute builds a Federal house at 25 Barrow Street on land he bought a year earlier
Jacob Shute, a mason who lived on Barrow Street, bought this lot in 1825. The lot came out of the Peter V. Remsen estate in the Village. He put up the brick house the next year, and his first tenants were William Ryer and then James Luckey, a cartman. A walkway along one side led to a small frame building at the back of the lot, probably a stable, which stood there before 1854.
“…purchased in 1825 by Jacob Shute, a mason, who lived on this street. He built this house the next year. His tenants ... were William Ryer and, afterward James Luckey…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1826
A Federal house at 25 Barrow Street keeps its original door and pineapple-topped stoop rails
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Built in 1826 in Flemish-bond brick, this house was once a two-and-a-half-story building with a pitched roof and dormers. A change in the brickwork eight courses above the second-floor lintels shows where it was later raised. Its eight-paneled front door and pilastered frame survive, along with wrought iron stoop railings whose open newels carry a pineapple, the traditional sign of hospitality, on the right-hand side only.
“…the original eight-paneled door and its pilastered frame remain, as does the handsome wrought iron work of the stoop ... surmounted (right-hand side only) by the pineapple, symbol of hospitality.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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