72 Charles Street

West Village | built 1895

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The lot about 1940 — About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc

The lot about 1985 — About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

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

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1895
Architect Charles Rentz designs No. 72 as a five-story apartment house for Joseph Mandelbaum
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In 1895 the architect Charles Rentz designed this five-story brick apartment house for Joseph Mandelbaum, using a modified dumbbell plan. The doorway has a heavy stone lintel on stone brackets, and the ground floor is rusticated. Rentz also designed No. 78, a few doors away, two years later.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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Then & Now photos: 72 Charles StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now

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