5 Charles Street

West Village | built 1900

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1847
A mason, a carpenter and a bluestone dealer buy the lots for a new row on Warren Place
The land on the north side of today's Charles Street had held the Eagle Mills until 1819, and in 1847 its owners Najah Taylor and Guy Richards sold off the lots to tradesmen. Among the buyers were a mason, several carpenters, a blacksmith, a plumber, and Daniel French, a dealer in bluestone. French made his own home at No. 5, then called No. 1 Warren Place.
“Of these men, Daniel French made his home at No. 5, when it was called No. 1 Warren Place.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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