40 Barrow Street
West Village | built 1851
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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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- 1851
No. 40 Barrow Street keeps the floor-length parlor windows of the 1851 Woodruff row
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Of the six houses Smith Woodruff built at 38-48 Barrow Street in 1851, No. 40 has kept more of its original look than its neighbors. It still has the floor-length parlor-floor windows typical of Italianate town houses, and bits of original cast ironwork in the window railings at that level. Its roof cornice matches those of Nos. 38, 42 and 48.
“No. 40 retains far more of its original appearance than do its neighbors: it displays the kind of floor-length parlor windows so typical of the Italianate style.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 40 Barrow StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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