28 East 2nd Street

East Village | built 1836

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

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1836
Builder Ephraim Wentworth erects a row of eight houses on East 2nd Street, No. 28 among them
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Around 1835 and 1836 the prolific builder Ephraim H. Wentworth built eight modest houses of two and a half stories along East 2nd Street, Nos. 22 to 36, just off Second Avenue. No. 28 is one of only four from the row that still stand, along with Nos. 26, 30 and 36. The other four no longer stand.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1871
A third story and a neo-Grec cornice are likely added to 28 East 2nd Street in 1871
No. 28 was built for John Nichols as a Greek Revival house of two and a half stories over a basement. The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission records show George C. Fisher as owner in 1871, when alterations were filed. The house was most likely raised to a full third story then, and given the neo-Grec cornice it still wears.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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