48 Greenwich Avenue
West Village | built 1872
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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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- 1872
No. 48 Greenwich Avenue is built in 1872 as one of three apartment houses for Jacob Schmitt
Jacob Schmitt had William Jose design three five-story apartment houses on this block in 1872, Nos. 48, 50 and 52. Number 48 was later modernized with a new brick facade, and a raised brick parapet with a simple stone coping replaced its original bracketed cornice. Fire escapes still cross the front, as they do on its neighbors.
“Of the three apartment houses built in 1872 for Jacob Schmitt by William Jose, No. 52 is the only one to retain its original aspect…”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 48 Greenwich AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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