42 Commerce Street
West Village | built 1858
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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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- 1858
Brewer McLachlan builds a four-story house at 42 Commerce Street on his old brewery yard
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Alexander McLachlan, who had put up a brewery at No. 38 in 1836, built the four-story brick house at No. 42 in 1858 on the site of his former brewery yard. Its proportions, windows and small corbels under the sills are typical of the period. The molded sheet-metal cornices and window sills are elaborate, and a cornice was added later.
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- Then & Now photos: 42 Commerce StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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