52 Greenwich Avenue
West Village | built 1872
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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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- 1872
No. 52 Greenwich Avenue keeps the look of the 1872 apartment houses built for Jacob Schmitt
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Of the three five-story apartment houses William Jose designed for Jacob Schmitt in 1872, No. 52 is the only one that kept its original appearance. Its square-headed windows are topped by lintels with segmental-arched cornices, and the bracketed cornice at the roof is the original. Its neighbors at Nos. 48 and 50 were given new brick fronts and parapets.
“No. 52 is the only one to retain its original aspect…”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 52 Greenwich AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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