45 Charles Street
West Village | built 1869
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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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- 1868
A Brooklyn grocer and liquor dealer hires a mason to design No. 45 and its two neighbors
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In 1868 James S. Bearnes of Brooklyn, who ran a grocery and liquor business on lower Washington Street, bought much of this block front for redevelopment. He engaged the Brooklyn mason Peter L. P. Tostevin to design the three houses now numbered 45 to 49. The firm of Rabold and Tostevin put up the brownstone row in 1869, and No. 45 has since lost its stoop in favor of a basement entrance.
“He engaged Peter L. P. Tostevin, mason, also of Brooklyn, to design Nos. 45-49.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 45 Charles StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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