270 Bleecker Street

also 4 Morton Street | West Village | built 1834

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

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1867
Richard Dugdale buys 270 Bleecker Street and turns the row house into a boarding house
The house was built around 1834 for developer Charles Oakley. In 1867 Richard Dugdale bought it, moved in with his family and ran a boarding house there. Between 1868 and 1869 it was enlarged to cover the whole lot and raised to four stories. The 1880 census found the Dugdales living there with 13 male boarders and a servant, a sign of how the Village's old row houses became early tenements.
“…purchased in 1867 by Richard Dugdale and his family, who took up residence there but also ran a boarding house…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1926
Storefront at 270 Bleecker is rebuilt and a doctor takes the second floor
After the 1860s conversion to tenement and stores, the ground floor kept changing tenants. Early occupants had included a carpet dealer, Stephen Lounsberry, in the 1860s and 1870s. In 1926 the storefront was rebuilt and the second story altered for a doctor's office, which was still there in 1943. Later shops included Fine Shoe Shop in 1929, Lanza's Pharmacy from the late 1930s to 1950, and Pompeii Florist in 1959.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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