39 5th Avenue
Greenwich Village | built 1922
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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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- 1922
Emery Roth designs his first Greenwich Village building, a 14-story apartment house at 39 Fifth Avenue
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In 1922 Emery Roth designed this 14-story apartment house, the first of his buildings in Greenwich Village. Village Preservation describes it as the first of many large apartment houses that would line this part of Fifth Avenue, usually where 19th-century mansions had stood. The facade is Flemish-bond brick with restrained ornament, apart from colorful terra-cotta loggias on the third, eleventh and twelfth floors.
Source: Village Preservation
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- Then & Now photos: 39 Fifth AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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