305 Avenue of the Americas
West Village | built 1829
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1879
Architect E. Simon raises 305 Sixth Avenue to four stories as flats for four families for owner Andrew Burke
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The house at 305 Sixth Avenue began around 1829 as a brick single-family home built for Jonathan Wickes and Thomas McClure, and had gained a ground-floor shop by the 1850s. In 1879 the architect E. Simon enlarged it to four stories for its owner, Andrew Burke. The upper floors became French flats, apartments for four families, over a commercial ground floor.
- 1950
Architect Ferdinand Innocenti cuts 305 Sixth Avenue down to two stories, leaving a shop and a one-family apartment
In 1950 the third and fourth floors that Simon had added seventy years earlier were demolished at 305 Sixth Avenue. The architect Ferdinand Innocenti redesigned what was left as a store with a single apartment for one family. The two-story building was later converted to wholly commercial use, and its facade today is a modern storefront of metal, glass and stucco.
“In 1950, the third and fourth stories were demolished as part of a conversion by architect Ferdinand Innocenti into a store and apartment for one family.”
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