55 Downing Street
also 55 1/2 Downing Street | West Village | built 1876
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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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- 1876
Thom & Wilson design twin tenements for 20 families on the Downing Street sawmill site
In 1876 the architects Thom & Wilson drew up two mirror-image five-story tenements, 55 and 55 1/2 Downing Street, for the estate of John Hagemeyer. They replaced his sawmill, which had stood on the lot. Each building held ten families. They went up while older houses and workshops nearby were giving way to multiple dwellings for Greenwich Village's expanding working-class and immigrant population.
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