44 Barrow Street

West Village | built 1851

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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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  1. 1969

    The Greenwich Music School occupies 44 and 46 Barrow Street at landmark designation

    When the Greenwich Village Historic District was designated in 1969, Nos. 44 and 46 Barrow Street housed the Greenwich Music School. They are two of a row of six Italianate houses built in 1851 by the mason Smith Woodruff. The school had altered both heavily: a single basement entrance at No. 46 replaced the two original stoops, the cornice was gone, and wrought-iron railings at the second floor carried a musical clef.

    “Nos. 44 and 46, housing the Greenwich Music School, have been altered very extensively. A single principal basement entrance for the two buildings…”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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