408 Avenue of the Americas
Greenwich Village | built 1839
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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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- 1839
William Beach Lawrence builds a row of eight houses on Sixth Avenue, four of which survive
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In 1839 the property owner William Beach Lawrence had eight houses built on the east side of Sixth Avenue between West Eighth and West Ninth Streets, on a stretch of the avenue that served as a neighborhood market and shopping street. No. 408 is one of the four that remain. Like No. 410, it keeps a simple roof cornice, and it has a store or restaurant at street level.
“…all that remain of a row of eight houses, built in 1839 for William Beach Lawrence, which once occupied the eastern side of Sixth Avenue…”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 408 Sixth AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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