43 Barrow Street

West Village | built 1828

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

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1828
Charles Oakley's speculative house at 43 Barrow goes up in 1828 and finds a tenant at once
No. 43 was one of four Federal houses (Nos. 39 to 45) built in 1828 on land that the attorney and developer Charles Oakley had bought in 1825. The street was then newly renamed Barrow, having been Reason Street. The houses were built to be rented, and the district report says they found tenants immediately. Tenants of the neighboring 1826 houses included a carpenter and a mason who may have helped build the row.
“These seven attractive, through modest, houses of the late Federal period... speculative houses for Charles Oakley... they found tenants immediately.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Poet Mark Van Doren lives at 43 Barrow Street in the mid-1920s
The 1969 designation report records that the poet and writer Mark Van Doren lived at No. 43 Barrow Street in the mid-1920s. By then the 1828 house had stood for about a century, and a third floor added in the 1870s had lifted it from its original two and a half stories. The report notes the house's Italianate stoop railing, which dates from the mid-nineteenth century.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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