6 Bedford Street

West Village | built 1829

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

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1829
David H. Van Waggenen has a three-story Federal house built at 6 Bedford Street
Between 1828 and 1829 David H. Van Waggenen had 6 Bedford Street built as a three-story Federal house with a peaked roof. The facade is three bays wide, with a stone water table across the front, a recessed entrance and a stone cornice over the first story. The landmarks report now classes the building as Federal altered to Renaissance Revival.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1870
6 Bedford Street is raised to four stories in 1870 and is home to four families by 1880
In 1870 the house at 6 Bedford Street was raised from three stories to four, one of many Village single-family homes converted to multiple dwellings that supplied cheaper housing for the growing working-class and immigrant population. The 1880 census recorded four families living there.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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