56 East 4th Street

East Village | built 1886

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

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1833
Albion Place, a terrace of twelve matching row houses, is built on this blockfront
Around 1832-33 the merchants Elisha Peck and Anson G. Phelps built Albion Place on the south side of East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue: twelve houses of uniform design, each three and a half stories over a raised basement. Deeds suggest the lots ran through to East 3rd Street, and period maps hint at stables or carriage houses at the back. The house at today's 56 East 4th Street began as one of these, an earlier building on the site.
“Albion Place, erected for merchant partners Elisha Peck and Anson G. Phelps on the southern block front of East 4th Street. Completed around 1832-33, twelve houses.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1886
William Graul rebuilds an old Albion Place house into a five-story tenement for George Hornberger
In 1886 the architect William Graul transformed the three-story Greek Revival house here for owner George Hornberger, adding two floors, a new Queen Anne-style front and a rear extension. The landmark report calls the result an effective rebuilding. Terra cotta spandrels and heavy stone lintels decorate the facade, and the stoop was later removed, shifting the entrance to the basement.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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