68 Barrow Street
West Village | built 1889
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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.
- 1889
No. 68 Barrow Street goes up in 1889 as one of four matched apartment houses
No. 68 was one of four apartment houses that Samuel A. Warner designed in 1889 for the Poillon estate, in a row numbered 62 through 68. String courses mark off each floor and a continuous cornice with console brackets caps the roofline, tying the four facades together. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the iron railings at the stoops and areaways as good examples of the work of the period.
“A continuous roof cornice with console brackets, string courses separating the floors, and four identical doorways with low stoops make one unit of the four facades.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 68 Barrow StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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