48 West 8th Street
Greenwich Village | built 1930
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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.
- 1876
A pair of Queen Anne flat houses rises at 48 and 50 West 8th Street
Nos. 48 and 50 West 8th Street go up in 1876 as five-story brownstone flat houses, the period's term for apartment buildings. Their cornices follow the Queen Anne style, then a new fashion, with broken pediments carrying dentils and swags above heavy decorative brackets. The window lintels repeat the motif with paneled faces and small bracketed cornices.
Source: media.villagepreservation.org
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 44-46 West 8th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
- Shopping at Flip in the 1980sEphemeral New York
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