55 East 7th Street

East Village | built 1893

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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  1. 1893

    An 11-family tenement for August Ruff is built at 55 East 7th Street

    Bruno W. Berger designed this red-brick Queen Anne tenement in 1893 for the owner August Ruff. It rose five stories above a basement and held 11 families, with two households on each of the five floors and the janitor's apartment in the front of the basement. A rusticated brownstone base, round-arched pediments and a bracketed metal cornice decorate the front.

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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