38 Barrow 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
Mason Smith Woodruff builds No. 38 Barrow Street in a row of six over old shops and stables
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In 1851 the mason Smith Woodruff, from a well-known family of builders, erected six brick Italianate houses on the north side of Barrow Street, Nos. 38 through 48, and this house is the first of them. They replaced a row of shops, factories and stables that had belonged to Timothy Whittemore. Woodruff lived in No. 48 for a short time. No. 38 later gained a small polygonal bay window set inside the frame of its original pedimented doorway.
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- Then & Now photos: 38 Barrow StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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