56 Bank Street
West Village | built 1833
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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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- 1833
Reverend Joseph Carter, who runs an academy on Hudson Street, has No. 56 Bank Street built
The Reverend Joseph Carter, whose academy stood at 294 Hudson Street, had this three-story house built in 1833. It is an early Greek Revival design in Flemish-bond brick over a rusticated basement. The Landmarks Preservation Commission's 1969 district report notes that a later bracketed cornice and sheet-metal window lintels were removed in a recent restoration.
- 1833
Painted brass pineapples top the stoop newels of 56 Bank Street
The stoop of this 1833 house keeps its original Greek Revival wrought iron handrails, with curving ironwork in the upper section. Its openwork round newel posts stand on stone bases and are topped with pineapples of painted brass. In that period the pineapple was a popular emblem of hospitality.
“…surmounted by pineapples of painted brass. The pineapple motif was a popular symbol of hospitality in those days.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 56 Bank StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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