Villa Mosconi
69 MacDougal Street | Greenwich Village | built 1851
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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.
- 1930
Matthew Del Gaudio remodels a Gothic Revival row house for Emil Navone
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The house began in 1850-51 as one of a row of three-story Gothic Revival dwellings for the estate of Nicholas Low, with cast-iron balconies. In 1930 the architect Matthew Del Gaudio altered it for owner Emil Navone, replacing the cornice with a parapet. In 1949 a new storefront brought an interior connection to No. 71 next door.
“No. 69 was altered to its current configuration in 1930 by Matthew Del Gaudio (ALT 210-1930). An interior connection to 71 MacDougal Street was created in 1949…”
- 1976
The family-run Villa Mosconi opens as an Italian restaurant
Villa Mosconi, an Italian restaurant run by a family, opened here in 1976. The landmark report cites it as one of the Italian-influenced businesses that kept appearing in the South Village even after the neighborhood's Italian population began to shrink, and notes that it was still operating when the district was designated in 2013.
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