The St. Germain
33 Greenwich Avenue | also 129 West 10th Street, 35A Greenwich Avenue, 23 Greenwich Avenue | West Village | built 1961
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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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- 1835
Playwright William Dunlap moves into an earlier house at 35 Greenwich Avenue
William Dunlap, called the father of the American theater, moved to No. 35 Greenwich Avenue in 1835. A poor playwright who kept himself going by painting, he had written a History of the American Theatre (1832) and, in 1834, a history of the rise and progress of the design arts in this country. The house was one of seven that stood on the lot before the apartment tower now there; he lived in it until his death.
- 1961
Fifteen-story St. Germain apartment house replaces seven houses on Greenwich Avenue
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The St. Germain, a fifteen-story white-brick apartment house, was built in 1960-61 on Greenwich Avenue, with a garage entrance at 133 West Tenth Street. It replaced seven older houses that faced the avenue. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 district report criticized it as unrelated to its surroundings and as a poor precedent for assembling lots for large towers in the Village.
“The apartment house replaces seven houses which once faced the Avenue. Among them, No. 35 was the home, until his death in 1840, of William Dunlap…”
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