396 Bleecker Street
also 398 Bleecker Street | West Village | built 1910
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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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- 1853
Linus Scudder and John B. Walton build 396 and 398 Bleecker Street, later combined as one house
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Nos. 396 and 398 Bleecker Street went up in 1852-53, with 398 built for crockery merchant John B. Walton and 396 for and by Linus Scudder, a mason who built actively in the Village. The two were joined into one building in the first half of the twentieth century, when their stores became living space. The result has gabled, peaked roofs, which the Landmarks Preservation Commission calls unusual on such tall houses.
“No. 398 was built for John B. Walton, crockery merchant, and No. 396 for and by Linus Scudder, mason, who was an active builder in The Village.”
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- Then & Now photos: 398 Bleecker StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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