56 Charles Street
West Village | built 1840
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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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- 1839
The Doremus brothers build 56 Charles Street as part of a five-house Greek Revival row
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In 1839 the mason Solomon Banta bought four of the five lots on this stretch of Charles Street and built No. 50 himself. Other tradesmen who bought his remaining lots built the rest, and the brothers Cornelius R. and David R. Doremus put up Nos. 54 and 56. The three-story brick row kept its height and its dentiled cornice with little alteration, and No. 56 now has a simplified doorway.
“The chief developer of this row in 1839 was Solomon Banta, mason, who bought four of the five lots and built No. 50.”
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- Then & Now photos: 56 Charles StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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