56 East 7th Street
East Village | built 1893
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 2011
The cornice of 56 East 7th Street is replaced by a masonry parapet around 2011
Schneider & Herter designed this tenement in 1893 for Charles Ruff as one of three matching Queen Anne tenements. Its original bracketed cornice was removed and replaced with a masonry or stuccoed-brick parapet around 2011, while the round-arched second-story windows, the terra-cotta panels and the arched entry portico survive. Its first-story decoration was also stripped at some point after a 1980s tax photograph.
Further reading
- 56 East 7th StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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