69 8th Avenue
West Village | built 1884
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1884
Pierson S. Halstead has James E. Ware design a double apartment house on Eighth Avenue
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In 1884 Pierson S. Halstead put up a pair of apartment houses on the west side of Eighth Avenue, between West 13th and West 14th Streets, behind a single matching facade. James E. Ware, an architect well known in his day, designed the brick building, with shops at street level. The small-paned window sash hints at the Queen Anne style, and the top-floor windows are divided by pilasters under a modillioned cornice.
“This double apartment house with uniform facade was erected for Pierson S. Halstead in 1884. It was designed by James E. Ware…”
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- Then & Now photos: 69 Eighth AvenueVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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