32 Bank Street
West Village | built 1845
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1845
No. 32 Bank Street is built with a Gothic-style ogival arch above its doorway in Peet's row
No. 32 was one of ten houses Stephen B. Peet built on the south side of Bank Street in 1844-45. The Greek Revival design carries a shallow ogival arch over the door and windows, an early hint of the Gothic Revival that was just becoming fashionable. No. 32 keeps its long parlor-floor windows, and the row's Greek-fret ironwork survives almost entirely.
“The ogival motif, seen above the doorways, recurs at all of the windows and is an early manifestation of the new Gothic mode…”
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- Then & Now photos: 32 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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