406 Avenue of the Americas

Greenwich Village | built 1839

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The lot about 1940 — About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc

The lot about 1985 — About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1902
Alterations turn a rowhouse front into pressed sheet metal with an arched pediment
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No. 406 was built in 1839, one of a row of eight houses put up for landowner William Beach Lawrence. Alterations in 1896 and 1902 gave it a pressed sheet-metal front with classical details. Above the cornice rises an arched pediment on half columns that frames a niche.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Further reading

Then & Now photos: 406 Sixth AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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