Corner house at Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street

345 Avenue of the Americas | also 159 West 4th Street, 347 Avenue of the Americas | West Village | built 1900

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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. 1825

    Alfred S. Pell builds a corner house here, and it goes in a forced sale after his death

    Alfred S. Pell, who lived near Washington Square and bought many Greenwich Village lots on speculation, built the house at this corner in 1825. It may have started at two and a half stories, with its gable facing West Fourth Street. Pell overextended himself, and after his death in 1832 the property went in a forced sale.

    “Alfred S. Pell... was a large speculator in Greenwich Village lots. He overextended himself, and there was a forced sale of this property after his death in 1832.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1847

    The Greenwich Savings Bank owns and occupies the corner house from 1847 to 1854

    From 1847 to 1854 the Greenwich Savings Bank owned this corner house and used it as its own premises. The house had been built in 1825 for the speculator Alfred S. Pell, and it carried a smaller extension on West Fourth Street than the longer two-story one added in 1886.

    “This corner house with a smaller extension was owned and occupied by the Greenwich Savings Bank between the years 1847 and 1854.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  3. 1969

    O'Henry's Steak House fills the corner, lit by gas lamps that once stood on Worth Street

    When the landmarks commission surveyed the Village in the 1960s, the corner was O'Henry's Steak House, entered at 345 Sixth Avenue. A two-story extension ran 86 feet along West Fourth Street, and the restaurant also reached into No. 347 next door. At the curb stood gas street lamps that had formerly been used on Worth Street, and three Art Nouveau stained-glass windows were set at ground level.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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