78 Charles Street

West Village | built 1897

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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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  1. 1897

    Charles Rentz designs a Queen Anne apartment house at 78 Charles Street for Brubacker and Rentz

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    In 1897 the architect Charles Rentz designed an apartment house at 78 Charles Street for the firm of Brubacker and Rentz. The Landmarks Preservation Commission notes its interesting brickwork at the upper floors and a richly treated first floor. The heavy stone lintel over the doorway rests on short squat columns carried by curved corbels carved with sunburst patterns, in the Queen Anne manner.

    “Charles Rentz, the architect of No. 72, likewise designed No. 78 in 1897 for Brubacker and Rentz.”

    Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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