4 Bleecker Street
also 6 Bleecker Street | NoHo | built 1813
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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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- 1813
David G. Giles builds a Federal-era house at what is now 4-6 Bleecker Street
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Around 1813 David G. Giles built a Federal-era dwelling here, on the south side of Bleecker Street near the Bowery, and his heirs held it until 1864. By 1851 the house had been divided into apartments or turned into a boarding house. The building looks Italianate today because it was remodeled in 1868, but the house underneath dates to the Federal period.
“…originally constructed as a Federal-era dwelling in c.1813 for David G. Giles, whose heirs maintained ownership of the building until 1864…”
- 1868
Nicholas Whyte gives the old house at 4-6 Bleecker a new Italianate front and two more stories
In 1868 the architect Nicholas Whyte designed a new Italianate facade for the old house and enlarged it from two stories to four. Robert Irwin was the owner of record, although the alteration application named Samuel Lord. Whyte had begun practicing in lower Manhattan that same year, so the job was among his earliest in the borough.
“In 1868, architect Nicholas Whyte designed a new Italianate-style facade for the building, which was also expanded from two to four stories…”
- 1939
The fur lofts of 4-6 Bleecker are converted back to apartments in 1939
Morris Feuer, who owned the building from 1920, commissioned new storefronts and a rear extension in 1921 and turned the second and third floors to commercial use, where fur businesses soon moved in. Through the 1930s the whole building was commercial; in 1939 the floors above the ground level went back to residential use. From about 1950 to 1955 the Lehigh Valley Railroad kept a recruiting office on the ground floor.
“…in 1939, however, the building was converted back to residential use above the first floor…”
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