55 Greenwich Avenue

West Village | built 1849

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

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1849
Builder Philo Beebe puts up the corner house at Perry Street and lives in it
Philo Beebe, a builder, erected No. 55 Greenwich Avenue in 1848-49 and made his home there. The corner house, which also has the address 2 Perry Street, closed a row of nine four-story brick houses built in 1848-49 as first-class residences without stores. Its upper floors still show the window arrangement of that first building.
“It was built in 1848-49 by Philo Beebe, builder, who lived in it.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1899
An 1899 alteration adds a story, stucco and a tiled corner tower
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In 1899 the Beebe house at the corner of Greenwich Avenue and Perry Street was raised by a floor and covered in stucco. The alteration added steep tile pseudo-roofs, including a corner tower with a low-angled tile roof. The city's 1969 district report says the tower marks the corner and gives the row an effective end, though it faults the black-and-white storefront.
“As the result of an alteration of 1899, its roof was raised, and it was altered to its present appearance.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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