74 MacDougal Street
Greenwich Village | built 1844
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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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- 1644
Pieter Santomee, a freed man who had worked for the Dutch West India Company, receives the land under this block
Before any houses stood here, the parcel that contains the MacDougal-Sullivan block was conveyed on December 15, 1644 to Pieter Santomee. The Landmarks Commission describes him as a free Black man who had first worked for the West India Company and was later freed. The land was part of the old Bouwerie of Governor Wouter Van Twiller; it passed through several owners to Nicholas Bayard in 1755, and Nicholas Low bought it in 1796.
“The parcel containing the Macdougal-Sullivan block was conveyed on December 15, 1644 to Pieter Santomee, a free negro.”
- 1844
The estate of Nicholas Low builds a row of Greek Revival houses on MacDougal Street and keeps them as rentals
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In 1844 the estate of the merchant Nicholas Low built three-story Greek Revival houses along MacDougal Street, among them this one at the Houston Street end. The Lows rented the houses rather than selling them. When Italian immigrants moved into the neighborhood they filled the buildings, and the family let them stand instead of tearing them down for tenements.
“The Lows, instead of selling the individual houses upon the completion of the rows, which was generally the practice at that time, kept them as income property.”
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