71 East 2nd Street
East Village | built 1835
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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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- 1835
Sidney P. Ingraham puts up a Greek Revival row house at 71 East 2nd Street
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The house went up in 1835 for Sidney P. Ingraham, at a modest two and a half or three stories. Its upper story was laid in Flemish-bond brick, a pattern of alternating long and short faces that survives on the facade. The architect is not recorded.
- 1885
Joseph Buckley has architect Ernest W. Greis raise the old row house to four full stories
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In 1885 Joseph Buckley commissioned Ernest W. Greis to add height to the half-century-old house. The stoop and cornice were later removed and the entrance moved down to the basement level, probably between 1913 and 1948, when the lower floors changed from office to store use.
Further reading
- 71 East 2nd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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