71 8th Avenue

West Village | built 1833

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

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1833
Maria Genet of Rensselaer County has a three-story building put up on the Genet land at Eighth Avenue
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The Genet family bought this stretch of Eighth Avenue in 1829, land that had once belonged to the Ireland family farm. In 1833 Maria Genet, who lived in Rensselaer County, had a building raised here, three stories high at the start. By 1969 it stood four stories tall, was classed as a factory and housed a lumber company.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1880
George Hayes buys the building, and his name ends up on its roofline
George Hayes acquired the property in 1880. His surname is inscribed on the low ornamental balustrade above the bracketed sheet-metal cornice, a mark of his ownership that remained visible on the building's roof when the city's landmarks commission surveyed the district in the 1960s.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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