36 Bank Street
West Village | built 1851
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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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- 1851
Builder Reuben Wood puts up No. 36 Bank Street as part of a row of four on land bought from Gorham Worth
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Reuben R. Wood, who had been building in the Village since the early 1830s, erected Nos. 36-42 Bank Street in 1851 on land he bought a year earlier from Gorham A. Worth. The fourth house, No. 42, was later replaced by an apartment house. No. 36 shares a pedimented pair of doorways with No. 38, and in the 1870s it received a bracketed neo-Grec roof cornice.
“Reuben R. Wood, a builder who had established himself in business in the early Eighteen-thirties, and who did a considerable amount of building in Greenwich Village…”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 36 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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