757 Greenwich Street

also 755 Greenwich Street | West Village | built 1837

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

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1836
A second, rear house stands behind 757 Greenwich Street in a gated courtyard
Behind a gate and railing on West Eleventh Street, in the courtyard between Nos. 303 and 311, sits the rear portion of 757 Greenwich Street, erected in 1836. A set of entrance doors was added for it at the back of the courtyard. The front house belongs to the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969.
“The house behind a handsome gate and railing in the courtyard, between Nos. 303 and 311, is the rear portion of No. 757 Greenwich Street, erected in 1836.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1837
Butcher Henry Pray lives at 757 Greenwich Street and builds a corner house around the corner
Henry Pray, a butcher, lived at 757 Greenwich Street and in 1837 had a three-story house built around the corner on West Eleventh Street, on a very narrow triangular lot. The side door of that corner house is used as an entrance to his other house at 755 Greenwich Street. Pray's own house at 757 was part of a three-house row of 1836-37 that he built along the avenue.
“This three-story corner house, on a very narrow triangular lot, was erected in 1837 for Henry Pray, butcher, of 757 Greenwich Street around the corner.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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