53 Barrow Street
also 19 Commerce Street, 55 Barrow Street, 19 1/2 Commerce Street | West Village | built 1909
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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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- 1909
Somerfield & Steckler design a six-story yellow-brick apartment house for 53-57 Barrow Street
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The Hoase Lippman Construction Company built this six-story apartment house in 1908-09 on the Barrow Street frontage that also carries the addresses 19-23 Commerce Street. Architects Somerfield & Steckler gave it a rusticated stone base with a central entrance under a bracketed cornice stone. A vertical tier of pedimented windows marks each end of the facade, and the top floor is rusticated brick under a classical cornice.
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 53-57 Barrow Street (aka 19-23 Commerce Street)Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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