49 Charles Street
also 47 Charles Street | West Village | built 1890
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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.
- 1869
Brooklyn builders put up the corner house of a four-house Italianate row
James S. Bearnes of Brooklyn, a grocer and liquor dealer, bought much of this block front in 1868 and engaged the mason Peter Tostevin to design Nos. 45-49. The firm of Rabold and Tostevin then built the row of brownstones in 1869. As the corner house, No. 49 kept the most original look, including a doorway with an arched pediment on carved brackets.
- 1927
A two-story brick store and apartment is added to the rear along West 4th Street
Architect Vincent M. Cajano designed a low two-story extension of the house for Dante Gerelli. It has a store at street level and a small residence above, faced in textured brick with arched windows and ornamental wrought-iron balconies. The addition carries the address 253 West 4th Street.
Further reading
- The 1869 Thomas H. Van Tine House - 47 Charles StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- Then & Now photos: 47 Charles StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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