29 East 7th Street
East Village | built 1880
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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.
- 1880
Jobst Hoffmann files plans for a five-story apartment house at 29 East 7th
Architect Jobst Hoffmann files plans in February 1880 for developer Isaak Horchster, projecting a cost of $11,000 for a five-story double-flat building. The red brick facade mixes Queen Anne and neo-Grec styles with Aesthetic touches, including sunflower-pattern cast-iron fences and stoop railings and a strip of colorful encaustic tiles between the third and fourth floors. Later that year Hoffmann is hired to design two matching buildings at 25 and 27 East 7th Street for a different owner.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1924
A music company operates from the building's converted basement
By 1924 the basement level of the apartment house has been converted into two commercial spaces. The George Withers Music Co. operates from one of them that year. The upper floors keep their layout of two apartments each.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- Jobst Hoffman's 1880 29 East 7th StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- 29 East 7th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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