327 Avenue of the Americas

West Village | built 1845

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1845

    Cabinetmaker James Watson is recorded with a shop and lot at 327 Sixth Avenue

    The 1845 tax assessments for the Ninth Ward list a shop and lot at 327 Sixth Avenue belonging to James Watson, a cabinetmaker; the following year the same property was described as a house and lot. In 1854 it was leased, together with the lot next door at 323-325, to the Western Reformed Dutch Church. The congregation built its church next door and appears to have kept the older building as a rental.

    “…first recorded in the 1845 Tax Assessments for the 9th Ward as a shop and lot for James Watson, a cabinetmaker.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1896

    The stained-glass firm J & R Lamb Studios occupies 327 Sixth Avenue around 1896, then buys it in 1903

    J & R Lamb Studios occupied 327 Sixth Avenue around 1896 and took a lease on the property in 1900. The firm bought the building and the church next door in 1903. In 1935 the Lambs leased No. 327 to Mathew's Express & Van Company, and in 1936 the property was sold to the 323 Sixth Avenue Corporation.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1940

    In 1940 No. 327 Sixth Avenue holds two markets, a butcher and a church decorator's studio

    A 1940 survey recorded two markets and a butcher in the building at 327 Sixth Avenue, plus the studio of Antonio D'Ambrosio, who decorated churches and stayed until at least 1950. Around 1946 the markets gave way to Whitey's restaurant, which kept the ground floor until at least 1959 while the upper stories were let to assorted businesses. In 1937 the lot had been leased, with the church building next door, to the Luxor-Bleecker Amusement Corporation.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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