Laux Hotel

417 Bleecker Street | also 82 Bank Street | West Village | built 1901

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

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1813
A frame barracks on this corner holds British sailors captured from the HMS Peacock
Before the present building, a wooden structure known as The Barracks stood at Bleecker and Bank Streets. After the USS Hornet sank the British ship HMS Peacock off Guyana on February 24, 1813, more than a hundred of her seamen were brought to New York. A 1918 account says they were confined here until the War of 1812 ended. This was an earlier building on the site.
Source: Ephemeral New York
1901
The remains of the old barracks become the Laux Hotel, named for its owner
The wood-frame prison building had later served as a private home with a shop at street level. In 1901 what was left of it was converted into a hotel called the Laux, after the man who owned it. By the late 1930s it had been refaced in brick and raised from three stories to four, and a restaurant occupied the ground floor with the hotel above.
“In 1901 the remains of this structure, which had been used as a private residence with a store at street level, was converted to the Laux hotel, named after the owner.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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