314 East 6th Street

East Village | built 1862

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

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1862
Whitney heirs build a five-story tenement at 314 East 6th Street with cast-iron columns at the door
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The building dates to about 1862, and the original owners were the heirs of Stephen Whitney. It rises five stories in brick, with ornamented cast-iron columns on either side of the ground-floor entrance and its original iron cornice. The upper-story lintels were later removed and the brick patched over, and the ground floor was refaced in concrete.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1953
The ground-floor stores at 314 East 6th Street are converted into apartments
In 1953 the owner filed alteration application 1747 to convert the shops on the ground floor into apartments. The building is a five-story tenement dating from about 1862 and built for the heirs of Stephen Whitney. Its ground story has since been refaced with concrete.
“…stores on ground story converted to apartments in 1953 (ALT 1747)…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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