34 Barrow Street
also 36 Barrow Street | West Village | built 1910
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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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- 1828
Two carpenters build late Federal frame houses at 34 and 36 Barrow Street
James H. Stephens built No. 34 in 1828, with fellow carpenter David P. Pye building No. 36 beside it, on land the two had bought from Charles Oakley the year before. The pair are brick-fronted frame houses, the earliest buildings on their block. They began as two and a half stories with dormers, and in the 1870s their roofs were raised to fit a third floor under bracketed cornices.
“…built in 1828 by two carpenters, James H. Stephens (No. 34) and David P. Pye (No. 36)…”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 34 Barrow StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
- A short history of a short street named Raisin StreetThe Bowery Boys
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