316 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
The Whitney heirs put up 316 East 6th Street on land the family bought in 1825, and lease it in 1866 to Leonhard Kipferl
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Tax records show the original building went up around 1862 for the heirs of Stephen Whitney, whose family had bought a large amount of property on this block in 1825. In 1866 the house was leased to Leonhard Kipferl. The five-story tenement kept its original iron cornice and a brick frieze, and its door is flanked by cast-iron columns.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1955
The storefronts at 316 East 6th Street are removed
An alteration filed in 1955, number 961, took out the stores that had occupied the ground floor of this five-story tenement. The ground story was refaced in concrete and reconfigured, and cast-iron columns still flank the door. The building had been put up around 1862 for the heirs of Stephen Whitney.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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