32 Cornelia Street

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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1828
Jonathan Southwick builds a pair of houses at 32 Cornelia Street
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The white brick building at 32 Cornelia Street, then numbered 38, and the house behind it on the same lot were built about 1828 for Jonathan Southwick. The conveyance records trace the property from Southwick in 1827 to Paul and Marie Antoinette Prudhomme in 1836, and later to the Foster family.
“…originally built as houses for Jonathan Southwick c. 1828.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1851
African-American families occupy both buildings at 32 Cornelia Street from about 1851
From about 1851 until 1910, both the front and rear buildings at 32 Cornelia Street were occupied by African-American residents. The houses may have been enlarged for several households around 1847 to 1848, when their assessed value rose. Between 1958 and 1960 the front facade was reconfigured and resurfaced with white brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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