50 Charles Street

West Village | built 1940

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

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1839
Mason Solomon Banta buys four of five lots and builds No. 50 as the start of a Greek Revival row
In 1839 Solomon Banta, a mason, bought four of the five lots on this stretch of Charles Street and built No. 50 himself. Other tradesmen bought his remaining lots and built houses on them, completing a row of five. Samuel Widdifield is named among the early residents of No. 50, and a steel studio window later replaced its central third-floor window.
“The chief developer of this row in 1839 was Solomon Banta, mason, who bought four of the five lots and built No. 50.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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