315 Avenue of the Americas

West Village | built 1828

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

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1864
The house at 315 Sixth Avenue gains a fourth floor and an Italianate cornice around 1864
Tax assessment records show that 315 Sixth Avenue was raised from three and a half stories to four full stories around 1864. The cornice with foliate brackets that it still has probably dates from that work. By then the house had a ground-floor store and a large extension at the back.
“The house was raised to four full stories c. 1864 according to the tax assessments and it is probably at this time that it acquired its Italianate cornice.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1905
The 1880 census finds seven families at 315 Sixth Avenue, and by 1905 it is a five-family tenement with a store
The 1880 United States census recorded seven families living at 315 Sixth Avenue, a house first built around 1828. Twenty-five years later city records described it as a five-family tenement with a store. The listed owners from 1914 were Livia Realty Company and Antonietta Avignone, and John Mattes held it from 1922.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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