319 West 4th Street

also 280 West 12th Street | West Village | built 1836

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

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1836
The corner house goes up in 1836 as part of a ten-house row built by tradesmen
Charles W. Hawkins bought the land in April 1835 from Samuel Bayard, an attorney in Princeton, New Jersey, and resold lots in July and August to seven different people. Six were tied to the building trades, among them the builders Frazee and Banta and the mason Henry M. Perine. By 1836 six houses of the row had been erected and four were unfinished. No. 319 stands at the row's corner, at West 12th Street.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1864
An 1864 alteration gives No. 319 a rear extension, entered at 280 West 12th Street
The Landmarks Preservation Commission records that the corner building of 1836 was altered in 1864. The address 280 West 12th Street is the entrance to a rear extension of No. 319 West 4th Street. The brickwork changes from Flemish to running bond and the window heights shift, so the added work is easy to spot, and the plain four-story result has a bracketed roof cornice and ample fire escapes.
“This number is the entrance to the rear extension to No. 319 West Fourth Street, an alteration of 1864 to a building of 1836.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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