51 Bank Street
also 304 West 4th Street, 302 West 4th Street | West Village | built 1898
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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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- 1898
George F. Pelham designs a six-story corner apartment house for J. M. Wimpie
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In 1898 architect George F. Pelham designed this six-story corner apartment building, also addressed as 304 West 4th Street, for J. M. Wimpie. It is faced in variegated brick with stone trim. Classical touches include pilasters at the entrance, a Greek key pattern in the band course dividing the second and third floors, and pedimented windows in the middle of the third and fourth stories.
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 304 West 4th Street (aka 51 Bank Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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