45 5th Avenue

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

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1855
Banker David S. Kennedy lives in a wide brick house on the Fifth Avenue lot
Before the present apartment tower, a three-story brick house stood on the lot, with a stoop, four pilasters and a pedimented front door flanked by shallow bay windows. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 Greenwich Village report says a banker named David S. Kennedy occupied it in the mid-1850s. Its neighbor to the north, the Irad Hawley residence, survives as the Salmagundi Club.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1925
Sugarman & Berger design a sixteen-story apartment house that marks the district's northern edge
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The architects Sugarman & Berger completed No. 45 Fifth Avenue in 1925 as a sixteen-story brick apartment house. Its first two floors are smooth stone, with brown brick above and terra cotta pilasters, balconies and an entablature near the top. The 1969 Greenwich Village Historic District report treats it as the northernmost building on the east side of Fifth Avenue within the district.
“The northernmost boundary of this Historic District, on the east side of Fifth Avenue, is formed by the sixteen-story brick apartment house which was designed by Sugarman & Berger in 1925.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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