729 Greenwich Street

also 731 Greenwich Street | West Village | built 1911

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

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1853
Grocer Joseph B. Harriot builds a three-story house at 729 Greenwich Street
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In 1853 Joseph B. Harriot had No. 729 built as a residence. He and Warren Harriot were grocers whose store stood at 718 Greenwich Street, at the corner of Charles Street, and they owned a good deal of property in the neighborhood. The house was one of a row of three beside the corner house at Perry Street, and a shared passage led to the back yards.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1928
Ferdinand Savignano gives 729 Greenwich Street and its neighbors a Spanish Colonial look
In 1928 the architect Ferdinand Savignano remodeled the row of Nos. 725 through 731 Greenwich Street for the Realty Collateral Corporation, giving it a Spanish Colonial look. No. 729, a three-story stuccoed house, kept a severely rectangular doorway that contrasts with the round-arched passage to the back yards beside it. A small round-arched mullioned window sits between two rectangular ones on its ground floor, and a stepped parapet with open triple arches at the sides crowns the front.
“The present appearance of the adjoining row of houses, Nos. 725-731, is due to a remodeling of 1928 in the popular Spanish Colonial style…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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