26 8th Avenue

also 24 8th Avenue | West Village | built 1840

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.

1840
Mason John Huyler is taxed for the gore-shaped house at No. 26
No. 26 Eighth Avenue was taxed in 1840 to John Huyler, one of two masons named Huyler who passed land back and forth with the developer Aaron Marsh while Nos. 22 to 26 went up. Because Huyler paid the taxes, the report concludes that he and the other mason were probably the actual builders of the first three houses. The three-story house sits on a gore-shaped lot, with a ground-floor store and a brick parapet.
“Since John Huyler, Jr., paid the taxes on No. 26, it is very probable that these two men were the actual builders…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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