36 Commerce Street
West Village | built 1841
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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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- 1841
Brewer Alexander McLachlan builds a Greek Revival house at 36 Commerce Street
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The three-story brick house with a rusticated stone basement went up in 1841 for Alexander McLachlan, a brewer whose brewery stood next door at No. 38, built in 1836 and later the Cherry Lane Theatre. The entrance has since moved down to the basement, but traces of the original doorway remain above the left-hand window of the first floor, and the wood roof cornice survives.
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 36 Commerce StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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