77 East 4th Street

East Village | built 1892

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

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1892
Charles Rentz Jr. designs a Queen Anne tenement at No. 77 for owners Andrew Brose and Charles Rentz
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The six-story Queen Anne building at 77 East 4th Street was completed about 1892, designed by Charles Rentz Jr. for the owners listed as Andrew Brose and Charles Rentz. It is faced in brick, brownstone and terra cotta, with cast-iron columns at the ground floor and a bracketed cornice.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1892
The architect of No. 77, Charles Rentz Jr., is a former beer dealer who also designs Webster Hall
Charles Rentz Jr., the New York-born son of a Wurttemberg cigar manufacturer, appears in an 1879 directory as a beer dealer and in the 1880 census as an architect. He designed 77 East 4th Street around 1892; his best-known work is Webster Hall and its annex, and most of his designs were flats and tenements.
“Rentz was listed in an 1879 city directory as a beer dealer, then as an architect in the 1880 New York census…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2018
Random Accessories, a gift shop run by Lynn Freidus, is a tenant at No. 77
Lynn Freidus opened Random Accessories as a jewelry shop at Thompson and Houston Streets in 1996. When that building was sold, about a decade later, she opened a broader gift store at 77 East 4th Street. In 2018 the building was run by the nonprofit landlord Cooper Square Mutual Housing.
Source: Village Preservation

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