4 East 8th Street

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1835
Brick and brownstone houses rise on Snug Harbor land along East 8th Street
Around the mid-1830s, upper-middle-class bankers and merchants lived in comfortable brick and brownstone houses north of Washington Square on East 8th Street. The land belonged to Sailors' Snug Harbor, and the houses followed the Federal and Greek Revival styles. The row of houses from No. 4 to No. 26 was sometimes called 'The Row.'
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1916
Harvey Wiley Corbett remodels Nos. 4 to 26 East 8th Street in a Mediterranean style
In 1916 the Sailors' Snug Harbor trust hired architect Harvey Wiley Corbett to make its aging row of East 8th Street houses profitable again. He gutted the interiors for studios and small apartments aimed at the Village's new artistic residents. Outside, he removed the stoops, stuccoed the brick and brownstone, and added arched windows, tiled roofs, iron balconies, and inset tilework.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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