6 Jones Street

West Village | built 1872

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

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1872
Henry Weil completes 6 Jones Street, one of two matching Italianate tenements with stores
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W. E. Waring designed a pair of Italianate tenements with ground-floor stores in 1871 for Henry Weil, who had owned the land since 1866. Numbers 6 and 8 Jones Street were finished the next year. Number 6 rose six stories in Philadelphia brick.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
Owner Abraham Wasserman turns the basement stores at 6 Jones Street into Mediterranean-style apartments
In 1928 Abraham Wasserman engaged the architect Ferdinand Savignano to turn the basement stores into apartments, hoping to attract middle-class tenants. The basement and first floor were given a Mediterranean look, with round-arched openings and a hipped roof of metal pantiles. Many Village buildings were restyled this way between about 1915 and 1930, some with studio windows to suggest bohemian life.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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