7 Cornelia Street

West Village | built 1900

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

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1873
George Reichardt has architect William Graul build a five-story tenement for 20 families at 7 Cornelia Street
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In 1873 George Reichardt acquired two neighboring lots on Cornelia Street and commissioned the architect William Graul to draw a pair of tenements sharing a party wall. The one at no. 7 was laid out for 20 families. It was one of the many Village row-house sites rebuilt in this period to house the growing working-class and immigrant population.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1948
Poet W. H. Auden rents an apartment at 7 Cornelia Street, staying until 1951
The British poet W. H. Auden rented an apartment at 7 Cornelia Street from 1948 until 1951. The building had begun as one of a pair of 1870s tenements, nos. 7 and 9, which an architect joined into a single apartment house with a unified facade in 1944, a few years before Auden moved in.
“From 1948 -51, the British poet W. H. Auden was a tenant at 7 Cornelia Street.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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