32 8th Avenue

West Village | built 1841

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

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1841
A carter, William Faulkner, has the brick house at 32 Eighth Avenue built
In 1841 the carter William Faulkner had two matching three-story brick houses put up on the east side of Eighth Avenue, Nos. 30 and 32. When the Landmarks Preservation Commission described the Village in its 1969 district report, the pair still kept their small-paned double-hung windows and plain wooden cornices, though No. 30's doorway had been turned into a basement entrance.
“These two brick houses of 1841 were identical until the doorway of No. 30 was converted for a basement entrance. ... The buildings were built for William Faulkner, carter.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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