Former Pure Oil station
48 7th Avenue South | West Village | built 1922
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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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- 1922
Pure Oil builds a gas station styled as a tiny Italian Renaissance chapel
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In 1922, soon after Seventh Avenue South was widened, the Pure Oil Company built a filling station on a triangular lot between Commerce and Morton Streets. It was made to look like a small Italian Renaissance chapel with a tile roof. The 1969 Greenwich Village report calls it an antique in its own category, a stock design of its day that served as a company symbol.
“…a gasoline filling station built in 1922 for the PureOil Company... intended to simulate a tiny Italian Renaissance chapel with tile roof…”
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- Then & Now photos: 48-52 Seventh Avenue SouthVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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