48 MacDougal Street
SoHo | built 1827
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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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- 1827
Carpenter Seth Wicks builds a two-story row house at 48 MacDougal Street and sells it
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The carpenter Seth Wicks put up the row house at 48 MacDougal Street in 1826-27 and sold it to Luther Whitmore. Built of brick in Flemish bond, it appears to have begun as a two-story house with a basement and an attic. In 1876, while J. Drummond owned it, the house gained a half story, a flat roof and a metal cornice.
“…constructed in 1826-1827 by the carpenter Seth Wicks and sold to Luther Whitmore…”
- 1914
The Nervo & Balbiani Co. has 48 MacDougal Street reworked for a bakery with stores
The Nervo & Balbiani Co. engaged architect Frank E. Vitolo in 1914 to rework the ground floors of 46 and 48 MacDougal Street as a bakery with shops. The existing first floor was torn out and a fireproof one built in its place. The brackets and paneled frieze of the cornice survive, as does a cast-iron pier at the south end of the first story.
“…the Nervo & Balbiani Co. hired the architect Frank E. Vitolo to alter 46 and 48 MacDougal Street to accommodate a bakery with stores…”
- 1930
Three Italian immigrant co-owners live above their bakery premises at 44-48 MacDougal Street
Peter Nervo, Joseph Balbani and Angelo Cerutti together owned 44, 46 and 48 MacDougal Street, which had begun as row houses. According to the Landmarks Commission, all three had come from Italy, and in 1930 they lived in these houses over their commercial space. Architect Frank E. Vitolo had redesigned the fronts for the P. Nervo Balbani & Company bakery between 1914 and 1922.
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