39 1st Avenue
East Village | built 1900
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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.
- 1867
Louis Heller builds an Italianate tenement after a factory fire
Louis Heller erected the five-story brick tenement at 39 First Avenue in 1867, on a site once occupied by the Allan Hay & Co. soap and candle factory that had burned in 1863. Its Italianate facade, with bracketed cornice and arched window lintels, was built identical in design to the adjoining tenement at No. 41.
Further reading
- 35 First AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 37 First AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 39 First AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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