Abraham Frazee House

46 Perry Street | West Village | built 1900

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1845

    Mason Abraham Frazee builds a Greek Revival house with a shop behind it

    Abraham Frazee, a mason, had this three-story house built in 1845, along with a separate shop at the rear of the lot. The house is 25 feet wide with four windows across at each upper floor and a stoop with simple Greek Revival ironwork. A second doorway at street level, set beside the main entrance, probably replaced the usual iron gate. The Landmarks Commission suggests Frazee may have used the rear building as his shop.

    “A shop as well as the house was built on this lot in 1845 for Abraham Frazee, a mason.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

  2. 1886

    December 7

    Resident Henry Thode is excused from the McQuade jury for his strong views

    Grocer Henry W. Thode, who owned 46 Perry Street and rented its rear building to working-class tenants, was called as a juror in the 1886 proceedings against ex-Alderman Arthur J. McQuade, who had been accused of taking bribes over the Broadway Surface Railroad franchise. On December 7, 1886, the Evening Post reported that questioning of Thode quickly showed he held a firm opinion on the case, so he was excused.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1949

    The house is the setting for the television series Apartment 3-C

    After the main house was converted in 1948 to one apartment per floor, it became the setting of a television series called Apartment 3-C in 1949. Its real-life residents, John and Barbara Gay, took part in the program. The series ran for a single season.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1993

    April

    Undercover officers in a taxi catch two burglars loading stolen goods

    Police who had been tailing two men moving in and out of doorways on Perry Street watched one push an air conditioner through a ground-floor window of 46 Perry while the other stood lookout. After about half an hour the pair came out with bags holding two VCRs, camera gear and a television wrapped in a sheet. An undercover officer in an Anti-Crime Unit taxi pulled up, a colleague posing as a passerby opened the door, and the burglars were driven to the station house.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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