7 East 9th Street
Greenwich Village | built 1838
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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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- 1838
Henry Suydam builds 7 East 9th Street, with a window railing that may have inspired the row
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No. 7 was one of the first two houses merchant Henry Suydam built on this block, in 1837-38, as an investment. The 1969 landmarks report notes its unusual Greek Revival window railing, with a strigil (curved S-shaped) motif and cast-iron rosettes beneath, and suggests it may have served as the prototype for the whole row. The stoop was later removed in favor of a basement entrance.
“At No. 7 may be seen an unusual Greek Revival window-railing with strigil motif and cast iron rosettes beneath, perhaps the prototype for the entire row.”
Further reading
- Then & Now photos: 7 East 9th StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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