26 Bedford Street
also 33 Downing Street | West Village | built 1950
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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.
- 1827
David Brower builds a two-story frame house, later joined by stables and a tenement
An earlier building on the site: around 1827 David Brower had a two-story frame dwelling built here at 24 Bedford, on the corner with Downing Street. By the 1850s it was in mixed use, with stables at the rear of the lot. Around 1865 a four-story brick tenement for Alexander Eagleson replaced the stables.
“…originally built c. 1827 as a two-story frame dwelling for David Brower. By the 1850s the house had been converted to mixed use and stables had been constructed…”
- 1896
The old house becomes a hotel in 1896, then a saloon with apartments upstairs
An earlier building on the site: around 1895 the Brower house was raised to three stories and given a brick front, and in 1896 it was converted to a hotel. By 1916 it was a saloon with apartments on the second and third floors. The ground floor was a warehouse in 1921 and held stores by 1930.
“In 1896 the building was converted to a hotel and 20 years later it had become a saloon with residential apartments on the second and third stories.”
- 1949
Stanley Rapaport joins the corner house and the tenement into one building
In 1949-50 architect Stanley Rapaport redesigned the two adjoining buildings as one structure for Silva Realty Corporation. He enlarged the corner building to four stories and gave the combined building a uniform brick facade, replacing the old frame and brick walls. The result is the single building now numbered 24-26 Bedford and 33 Downing Street.
“In 1949-50, architect Stanley Rapaport redesigned the two buildings into a single structure for Silva Realty Corporation…”
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