27 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1880

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

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1880
Jobst Hoffmann designs a red-brick Queen Anne tenement for two families per floor
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Architect Jobst Hoffmann designed this five-story tenement in 1880 and filed a single building application covering it and its twin at No. 25. Both mirror No. 29, which Hoffmann drew the same year for a different owner. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes that each building was planned for two families on every floor, behind a classical portico, banded brickwork and colored tile.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1968
The Order of St. Basil the Great runs a monastery here, with a chapel on the second floor
By 1968 the Order of St. Basil the Great owned 27 East 7th Street, and its certificate of occupancy describes a religious house. The second floor held the chapel along with three bedrooms and a study, while the upper floors had more bedrooms, studies and a reading room. The ground floor served as kitchen, laundry, dining parlor and recreation space, and a boiler room occupied the cellar.
Source: buildingblocks.villagepreservation.org

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