389 Avenue of the Americas

West Village | built 1826

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1826
Alfred S. Pell has a pair of Federal houses built at 387 and 389 Sixth Avenue
The two houses went up in 1826-27 for Alfred S. Pell, who developed a good deal of property around the Village. They were Federal in style, three and a half stories tall, with paneled lintels, a paneled fascia and dormers. Their low proportions still hint at that early date, even though the street front has since been remodeled.
“…built in 1826-27 in the Federal style. Their low height and proportions bear mute evidence of this earlier period. They were erected for Alfred S. Pell…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1878
A full fourth story replaces the dormers on the Sixth Avenue pair at 387-389
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In 1878 the old dormers came off and a complete fourth floor went on, and the fronts were remodeled in the Neo-Grec style. Heavy lintels with incised designs sit on corbel blocks, tied together by stone bands, under a bracketed roof cornice. Stores fill the ground floor, with a separate door to the three floors of rooms above.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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